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Bug 1740605 - Kernel oops on BeagleBone Black
Summary: Kernel oops on BeagleBone Black
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 30
Hardware: armv7hl
OS: Linux
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: ARMTracker
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2019-08-13 11:01 UTC by imgx64+bzrh
Modified: 2020-01-26 09:36 UTC (History)
19 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2020-01-26 09:36:31 UTC
Type: Bug
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boot log (15.90 KB, text/plain)
2019-08-13 11:01 UTC, imgx64+bzrh
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Description imgx64+bzrh 2019-08-13 11:01:08 UTC
Created attachment 1603264 [details]
boot log

1. Please describe the problem:
After upgrading from kernel kernel-5.1.20-300.fc30.armv7hl to kernel-5.2.7-200.fc30.armv7hl on a BeagleBone Black ( https://beagleboard.org/black/ ), I started getting kernel oops that starts with:

[   40.332718] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000001b
[   40.340986] pgd = 8a643b40
[   40.343793] [0000001b] *pgd=00000000
[   40.347443] Internal error: Oops: 5 [#1] SMP ARM

The full log (retrieved using serial console) is attached.

2. What is the Version-Release number of the kernel:
5.2.7-200.fc30.armv7hl

3. Did it work previously in Fedora? If so, what kernel version did the issue
   *first* appear?  Old kernels are available for download at
   https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=8 :
Yes, it worked previously.
The problem does not occur with 5.1.20-300.fc30.armv7hl.
The problem first occurs with 5.2.1-200.fc30.armv7hl.

4. Can you reproduce this issue? If so, please provide the steps to reproduce
   the issue below:
Yes, the issue happens on every boot.

5. Does this problem occur with the latest Rawhide kernel? To install the
   Rawhide kernel, run ``sudo dnf install fedora-repos-rawhide`` followed by
   ``sudo dnf update --enablerepo=rawhide kernel``:
Yes. The problem also occurs with 5.3.0-0.rc3.git1.1.fc31.armv7hl.

6. Are you running any modules that not shipped with directly Fedora's kernel?:
No.

7. Please attach the kernel logs. You can get the complete kernel log
   for a boot with ``journalctl --no-hostname -k > dmesg.txt``. If the
   issue occurred on a previous boot, use the journalctl ``-b`` flag.
The system does not boot with the affected kernel, so the only log available is the boot log (attached).

Comment 1 imgx64+bzrh 2019-08-27 17:33:16 UTC
More testing:
5.1.20-300.fc30.armv7hl: working
5.2.0-0.rc0.git6.1.fc31.armv7hl - 5.2.0-0.rc2.git1.1.fc31.armv7hl: freezes at boot, no output on serial console
5.2.0-0.rc2.git1.2.fc31.armv7hl: crashes with a different error
5.2.0-0.rc3.git0.1.fc31.armv7hl and beyond: crashes with this issue

Comment 2 imgx64+bzrh 2019-09-23 14:06:01 UTC
Seems to be fixed in the latest Rawhide kernel (5.4.0-0.rc0.git4.1.fc32.armv7hl), but still broken in the latest F30 kernel (5.2.15-200.fc30.armv7hl).

I've git-bisected this issue down to commit c4741b23059794bd99beef0f700103b0d983b3fd[1]. According to the commit message, kernel crashes are a known side-effect...

> Note that on arm, a side effect of this change is that self-tests for
> generic implementations may run before the unaligned access handler has
> been installed.  So, unaligned accesses will crash the kernel.  This is
> arguably a good thing as it makes it easier to detect that type of bug.

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?h=c4741b23059794bd99beef0f700103b0d983b3fd

Comment 3 Peter Robinson 2019-10-13 17:42:24 UTC
So this should be resolved in the 5.3.6 kernel that will be built tomorrow.


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