FYI, we noticed the following commit (built with gcc-7): commit: 6413f852ce086c0f95817012c08d481ce24d8b1a ("apparmor: add proc subdir to attrs") https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git master in testcase: ltp with following parameters: disk: 1HDD fs: xfs test: fs-02 test-description: The LTP testsuite contains a collection of tools for testing the Linux kernel and related features. test-url: http://linux-test-project.github.io/ on test machine: qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -cpu SandyBridge -smp 2 -m 8G caused below changes (please refer to attached dmesg/kmsg for entire log/backtrace): If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag Reported-by: kernel test robot <<>> tag=proc01 stime=1581538074 cmdline="proc01 -m 128" contacts="" analysis=exit <<>> proc01 0 TINFO : /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/register: is write-only. proc01 0 TINFO : /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/all/stable_secret: known issue: errno=EIO(5): Input/output error proc01 0 TINFO : /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/default/stable_secret: known issue: errno=EIO(5): Input/output error proc01 0 TINFO : /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/eth0/stable_secret: known issue: errno=EIO(5): Input/output error proc01 0 TINFO : /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/lo/stable_secret: known issue: errno=EIO(5): Input/output error proc01 0 TINFO : /proc/kmsg: known issue: errno=EAGAIN/EWOULDBLOCK(11): Resource temporarily unavailable proc01 0 TINFO : /proc/sysrq-trigger: is write-only. proc01 0 TINFO : /proc/self/task/2646/mem: known issue: errno=EIO(5): Input/output error proc01 0 TINFO : /proc/self/task/2646/clear_refs: is write-only. proc01 0 TINFO : /proc/self/task/2646/pagemap: reached maxmbytes (-m) proc01 1 TFAIL : proc01.c:397: read failed: /proc/self/task/2646/attr/apparmor/current: errno=EINVAL(22): Invalid argument proc01 2 TFAIL : proc01.c:397: read failed: /proc/self/task/2646/attr/apparmor/prev: errno=EINVAL(22): Invalid argument proc01 3 TFAIL : proc01.c:397: read failed: /proc/self/task/2646/attr/apparmor/exec: errno=EINVAL(22): Invalid argument proc01 0 TINFO : /proc/self/mem: known issue: errno=EIO(5): Input/output error proc01 0 TINFO : /proc/self/clear_refs: is write-only. proc01 0 TINFO : /proc/self/pagemap: reached maxmbytes (-m) proc01 4 TFAIL : proc01.c:397: read failed: /proc/self/attr/apparmor/current: errno=EINVAL(22): Invalid argument proc01 5 TFAIL : proc01.c:397: read failed: /proc/self/attr/apparmor/prev: errno=EINVAL(22): Invalid argument proc01 6 TFAIL : proc01.c:397: read failed: /proc/self/attr/apparmor/exec: errno=EINVAL(22): Invalid argument proc01 7 TFAIL : proc01.c:466: readproc() failed with 6 errors. <<>> initiation_status="ok" duration=1 termination_type=exited termination_id=1 corefile=no cutime=7 cstime=89 <<>> To reproduce: # build kernel cd linux cp config-5.5.0-rc5-00005-g6413f852ce086 .config make HOSTCC=gcc-7 CC=gcc-7 ARCH=x86_64 olddefconfig prepare modules_prepare bzImage modules make HOSTCC=gcc-7 CC=gcc-7 ARCH=x86_64 INSTALL_MOD_PATH= modules_install cd find lib/ | cpio -o -H newc --quiet | gzip > modules.cgz git clone https://github.com/intel/lkp-tests.git cd lkp-tests bin/lkp qemu -k -m modules.cgz job-script # job-script is attached in this email Thanks, Rong Chen