[Linux-kernel-mentees] [STABLE TEST] 5.3.13

Amol Grover frextrite at gmail.com
Tue Dec 3 07:14:15 UTC 2019


On Tue, Dec 03, 2019 at 07:40:52AM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 03, 2019 at 11:55:03AM +0530, Amol Grover wrote:
> > Compiled, Booted, however I'm getting the following errors when running
> > "make kselftest"
> > 
> > sudo dmesg -l alert
> > 
> > [34381.903893] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000008
> > [34381.903904] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
> > [34381.903908] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
> 
> Which test causes this problem?

IIRC I didn't run make kselftest with summary=1 option. Is there any
other way to get that information? The logs that kselftest generated
also don't seem to help in this.

> 
> ANd is it new in 5.3.13?
> 

I previously ran kselftest on 5.4-rc7 and 5.3.9 (default kernel shipped
by openSUSE), both were fine. However, a bit of backstory:

A day ago I used kselftest from the linux/next branch and ran it (w/o
sudo).  It showed me the exact same error. However, I was running a
modified version of 5.3.13, but those modifications were actually
trivial (5 lines changed) and shouldn't have resulted in this kernel
error. So, I switched to the vanilla 5.3.13 and ran kselftest (w/o sudo)
again. I ran it 3 times (w/o any errors), switched back to the modified
kernel and ran kselftest (w/o root) 2 more times and everything was
fine. Then I decided to test the vanilla one again for the 4th time, but
this time I ran kselftest as root where this BUG popped again.

Thanks
Amol


> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h


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