Re: next/master bisection: boot on beaglebone-black

[Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>]

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> next/master bisection: boot on beaglebone-black
> 
> Summary:
>   Start:      9942eae47585 Add linux-next specific files for 20191121
>   Details:    https://kernelci.org/boot/id/5dd6696859b514303ecf550d
>   Plain log:  https://storage.kernelci.org//next/master/next-20191121/arm/multi_v7_defconfig/gcc-8/lab-baylibre/boot-am335x-boneblack.txt
>   HTML log:   https://storage.kernelci.org//next/master/next-20191121/arm/multi_v7_defconfig/gcc-8/lab-baylibre/boot-am335x-boneblack.html
>   Result:     b8eb718348b8 net-sysfs: Fix reference count leak in rx|netdev_queue_add_kobject
> 
> Checks:
>   revert:     PASS
>   verify:     PASS
> 
> Parameters:
>   Tree:       next
>   URL:        git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git
>   Branch:     master
>   Target:     beaglebone-black
>   CPU arch:   arm
>   Lab:        lab-baylibre
>   Compiler:   gcc-8
>   Config:     multi_v7_defconfig
>   Test suite: boot
> 
> Breaking commit found:
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> commit b8eb718348b8fb30b5a7d0a8fce26fb3f4ac741b
> Author: Jouni Hogander <jouni.hogander@unikie.com>
> Date:   Wed Nov 20 09:08:16 2019 +0200
> 
>     net-sysfs: Fix reference count leak in rx|netdev_queue_add_kobject
>     
>     kobject_init_and_add takes reference even when it fails. This has
>     to be given up by the caller in error handling. Otherwise memory
>     allocated by kobject_init_and_add is never freed. Originally found
>     by Syzkaller:
>     
>     BUG: memory leak
>     unreferenced object 0xffff8880679f8b08 (size 8):
>       comm "netdev_register", pid 269, jiffies 4294693094 (age 12.132s)
>       hex dump (first 8 bytes):
>         72 78 2d 30 00 36 20 d4                          rx-0.6 .
>       backtrace:
>         [<000000008c93818e>] __kmalloc_track_caller+0x16e/0x290
>         [<000000001f2e4e49>] kvasprintf+0xb1/0x140
>         [<000000007f313394>] kvasprintf_const+0x56/0x160
>         [<00000000aeca11c8>] kobject_set_name_vargs+0x5b/0x140
>         [<0000000073a0367c>] kobject_init_and_add+0xd8/0x170
>         [<0000000088838e4b>] net_rx_queue_update_kobjects+0x152/0x560
>         [<000000006be5f104>] netdev_register_kobject+0x210/0x380
>         [<00000000e31dab9d>] register_netdevice+0xa1b/0xf00
>         [<00000000f68b2465>] __tun_chr_ioctl+0x20d5/0x3dd0
>         [<000000004c50599f>] tun_chr_ioctl+0x2f/0x40
>         [<00000000bbd4c317>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x1c7/0x1510
>         [<00000000d4c59e8f>] ksys_ioctl+0x99/0xb0
>         [<00000000946aea81>] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x78/0xb0
>         [<0000000038d946e5>] do_syscall_64+0x16f/0x580
>         [<00000000e0aa5d8f>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
>         [<00000000285b3d1a>] 0xffffffffffffffff
>     
>     Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
>     Cc: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
>     Signed-off-by: Jouni Hogander <jouni.hogander@unikie.com>
>     Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This should be fixed by Eric's patch here:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net.git/commit/?id=48a322b6f9965b2f1e4ce81af972f0e287b07ed0
-- 
Florian