FYI, we noticed the following commit: commit: 165a5e22fafb127ecb5914e12e8c32a1f0d3f820 ("block: Move bdi_unregister() to del_gendisk()") https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master 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-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 420M caused below changes (please refer to attached dmesg/kmsg for entire log/backtrace): +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+ | | 113285b473 | 165a5e22fa | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+ | boot_successes | 32 | 14 | | boot_failures | 1 | 27 | | invoked_oom-killer:gfp_mask=0x | 1 | | | Mem-Info | 1 | | | page_allocation_failure:order:#,mode:#(GFP_USER),nodemask=(null) | 1 | | | Out_of_memory:Kill_process | 1 | | | page_allocation_failure:order:#,mode:#(GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT|__GFP_ZERO|__GFP_NOTRACK),nodemask=(null) | 1 | | | BUG_kmalloc-#(Not_tainted):Poison_overwritten | 0 | 23 | | INFO:#-#.First_byte#instead_of | 0 | 23 | | INFO:Allocated_in_bdi_init_age=#cpu=#pid= | 0 | 23 | | INFO:Freed_in_wb_congested_put_age=#cpu=#pid= | 0 | 23 | | INFO:Slab#objects=#used=#fp=0x(null)flags= | 0 | 23 | | INFO:Object#@offset=#fp= | 0 | 23 | | BUG:kernel_hang_in_test_stage | 0 | 2 | | BUG:kernel_hang_in_boot_stage | 0 | 2 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+ [ 17.819559] sd 0:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off [ 17.819562] sd 0:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 73 00 10 08 [ 17.823330] sd 0:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, supports DPO and FUA [ 17.826134] slram: not enough parameters. [ 17.830848] ============================================================================= [ 17.831013] BUG kmalloc-16 (Not tainted): Poison overwritten [ 17.831013] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [ 17.831013] [ 17.831013] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint [ 17.831013] INFO: 0xffff88001296ddc8-0xffff88001296ddd0. First byte 0x6a instead of 0x6b [ 17.831013] INFO: Allocated in bdi_init+0x85/0x31d age=119 cpu=0 pid=161 [ 17.831013] ___slab_alloc+0x479/0x4c6 [ 17.831013] __slab_alloc+0x41/0x71 [ 17.831013] kmem_cache_alloc+0x57/0xc2 [ 17.831013] bdi_init+0x85/0x31d [ 17.831013] bdi_alloc_node+0x3f/0x53 To reproduce: git clone https://github.com/01org/lkp-tests.git cd lkp-tests bin/lkp qemu -k job-script # job-script is attached in this email Thanks, Ying Huang