On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 06:00:25PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 08:20:55PM +0530, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
I use to notice kernel panic while running kunit tests now I have noticed this
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range pc : kunit_test_null_dereference (lib/kunit/kunit-test.c:119) lr : kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter (lib/kunit/try-catch.c:31)
The kunit tests run to completion and the system is stable. Kernel did not panic.
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<0>[ 76.808597] Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000005 [#1] PREEMPT SMP <4>[ 76.809876] Modules linked in: <4>[ 76.812055] CPU: 1 PID: 567 Comm: kunit_try_catch Tainted: G B N 6.9.0-rc3-next-20240410 #1 <4>[ 76.812987] Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT) <4>[ 76.814123] pstate: 12400009 (nzcV daif +PAN -UAO +TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--) <4>[ 76.814947] pc : kunit_test_null_dereference (lib/kunit/kunit-test.c:119)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This is a new intentional NULL dereferencer that was added yesterday.
Maybe these should have a big printk, "Intentional NULL dereference coming up!\n".
Can the backtrace be suppressed, similar to the warnings suppression I am working on ?
Thanks, Guenter