FYI, we noticed the following commit: commit: 1442488925f53e8f8ffc3c142e133e7ec287173f ("block: fix lifetime of request_queue / backing_dev_info relative to bdev") url: https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/Dan-Williams/block-fix-backing_dev_info-lifetime/20170108-114310 in testcase: trinity with following parameters: runtime: 300s test-description: Trinity is a linux system call fuzz tester. test-url: http://codemonkey.org.uk/projects/trinity/ on test machine: qemu-system-i386 -enable-kvm -smp 2 -m 320M caused below changes: +------------------------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+ | | 4cf184638b | 1442488925 | +------------------------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+ | boot_successes | 0 | 0 | | boot_failures | 2 | 17 | | kernel_BUG_at_lib/list_debug.c | 2 | 1 | | invalid_opcode:#[##]PREEMPT_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC | 2 | 1 | | Kernel_panic-not_syncing:Fatal_exception | 2 | 1 | | WARNING:at_mm/backing-dev.c:#bdi_exit | 0 | 15 | | WARNING:at_include/linux/kref.h:#kobject_get | 0 | 16 | | INFO:rcu_preempt_detected_stalls_on_CPUs/tasks | 0 | 5 | | BUG:kernel_hang_in_test_stage | 0 | 5 | | invoked_oom-killer:gfp_mask=0x | 0 | 1 | | Mem-Info | 0 | 1 | | page_allocation_failure:order:#,mode:#(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_NORETRY) | 0 | 1 | | WARNING:at_lib/kobject.c:#kobject_put | 0 | 1 | +------------------------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+ [ 88.027646] ide0: BM-DMA at 0xc080-0xc087 [ 88.027911] ide1: BM-DMA at 0xc088-0xc08f [ 88.027975] Probing IDE interface ide0... [ 88.238393] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 17 at mm/backing-dev.c:876 bdi_exit+0x33/0x65 [ 88.257859] CPU: 0 PID: 17 Comm: kworker/0:1 Not tainted 4.10.0-rc2-00104-g1442488 #1 [ 88.268429] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.9.3-20161025_171302-gandalf 04/01/2014 [ 88.281879] Workqueue: events bdev_release [ 88.287673] Call Trace: [ 88.291074] dump_stack+0x16/0x18 [ 88.295550] __warn+0xaa/0xc1 [ 88.299735] ? bdi_exit+0x33/0x65 To reproduce: git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/lkp-tests.git cd lkp-tests bin/lkp qemu -k job-script # job-script is attached in this email Thanks, Xiaolong