FYI, we noticed the below changes on https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master commit 7412301b76bd53ee53b860f611fc3b5b1c2245b5 ("Smack: Assign smack_known_web as default smk_in label for kernel thread's socket") +----------------------------------+------------+------------+ | | 74f0414b2f | 7412301b76 | +----------------------------------+------------+------------+ | boot_successes | 8 | 0 | | boot_failures | 0 | 8 | | INFO:suspicious_RCU_usage | 0 | 8 | | backtrace:inet_ctl_sock_create | 0 | 8 | | backtrace:dccp_v4_init_net | 0 | 8 | | backtrace:ops_init | 0 | 8 | | backtrace:register_pernet_subsys | 0 | 8 | | backtrace:dccp_v4_init | 0 | 8 | | backtrace:kernel_init_freeable | 0 | 8 | | invoked_oom-killer:gfp_mask=0x | 0 | 1 | | Mem-Info | 0 | 1 | | Out_of_memory:Kill_process | 0 | 1 | | backtrace:vfs_writev | 0 | 1 | | backtrace:SyS_writev | 0 | 1 | +----------------------------------+------------+------------+ [ 22.152970] DCCP: Activated CCID 2 (TCP-like) [ 22.164997] [ 22.165505] =============================== [ 22.166384] [ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ] [ 22.167268] 4.0.0-rc1-00004-g7412301 #1 Not tainted [ 22.168266] ------------------------------- [ 22.169154] net/ipv4/cipso_ipv4.c:1936 suspicious rcu_dereference_protected() usage! [ 22.171025] [ 22.171025] other info that might help us debug this: [ 22.171025] [ 22.172994] [ 22.172994] rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0 [ 22.174397] 3 locks held by swapper/0/1: [ 22.175260] #0: (net_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [] register_pernet_subsys+0x25/0x67 [ 22.177432] #1: (slock-AF_INET/1){+.....}, at: [] smack_netlabel+0x53/0xff [ 22.179575] #2: (rcu_read_lock){......}, at: [] netlbl_sock_setattr+0x0/0x284 [ 22.181678] [ 22.181678] stack backtrace: [ 22.182729] CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.0.0-rc1-00004-g7412301 #1 [ 22.184267] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Debian-1.8.2-1 04/01/2014 [ 22.185948] 00000000 00000000 d326bdd8 c2595e9d 00000001 d326bdf4 c110de36 c2bbda2a [ 22.188179] d32e0000 cde48000 cdd920fb cdd92e10 d326be18 c2274f3f 0000000b 0000000c [ 22.190362] cdd920f0 cdd92e10 ffffffa7 c2e490f8 00000002 d326be30 c24cc866 cde48000 [ 22.192585] Call Trace: [ 22.193197] [] dump_stack+0xb8/0x108 [ 22.194090] [] lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x1eb/0x202 [ 22.195138] [] cipso_v4_sock_setattr+0x17c/0x282 [ 22.196221] [] netlbl_sock_setattr+0x182/0x284 [ 22.197240] [] smack_netlabel+0xb5/0xff [ 22.198166] [] smack_socket_post_create+0x7e/0x8f [ 22.199212] [] security_socket_post_create+0x29/0x3c [ 22.200342] [] __sock_create+0x3cb/0x515 [ 22.201296] [] sock_create_kern+0x2a/0x3a [ 22.202252] [] inet_ctl_sock_create+0x33/0x88 [ 22.203251] [] dccp_v4_init_net+0x42/0x5a [ 22.204248] [] ops_init+0x270/0x2b2 [ 22.205277] [] ? inet_register_protosw+0x1d9/0x1fe [ 22.206341] [] register_pernet_operations+0xc1/0x13d [ 22.207507] [] ? dccp_v4_init_net+0x5a/0x5a [ 22.208532] [] register_pernet_subsys+0x3a/0x67 [ 22.223269] [] dccp_v4_init+0x9e/0x112 [ 22.224242] [] do_one_initcall+0x227/0x358 [ 22.225211] [] ? __usermodehelper_set_disable_depth+0x65/0x79 [ 22.226399] [] kernel_init_freeable+0x3dd/0x55e [ 22.227418] [] ? kernel_init_freeable+0x3dd/0x55e [ 22.228509] [] kernel_init+0x1b/0x1ec [ 22.229425] [] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x21/0x30 [ 22.230450] [] ? rest_init+0x274/0x274 [ 22.253519] tipc: Activated (version 2.0.0) [ 22.257814] NET: Registered protocol family 30 [ 22.275239] tipc: Started in single node mode Thanks, Ying Huang