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From: Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com>
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Subject: [BUG] OpenRISC exec init fails, bisected to 0886551 ("initramfs:  finish fput() before accessing any binary from initramfs")
Date: Thu, 04 May 2017 09:20:02 +0200
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Hello,

While booting the v4.11 kernel I found the below issue.

The summary of the issue mentions

    Commit 4a9d4b024a31 ("switch fput to task_work_add") implements a
    schedule_work() for completing fput(), but did not guarantee calling
    __fput() after unpacking initramfs.  Because of this, there is a
    possibility that during boot a driver can see ETXTBSY when it tries to
    load a binary from initramfs as fput() is still pending on that binary.

It seems this patch (0886551) introduces that issue though?

I am looking into it, but any suggestions would be helpful.

BOOT LOG

  Compiled-in FDT at c03b9100
  Linux version 4.10.0-10351-g0886551 (shorne@lianli.shorne-pla.net) (gcc version 5.4.0 (GCC) ) #223 Thu May 4 16:01:02 JST 2017
  CPU: OpenRISC-0 (revision 0) @20 MHz
  ...
  Freeing unused kernel memory: 2856K
  This architecture does not have kernel memory protection.
  Failed to execute /init (error -26)
  Starting init: /sbin/init exists but couldn't execute it (error -26)
  Starting init: /bin/sh exists but couldn't execute it (error -26)
  Kernel panic - not syncing: No working init found.  Try passing init= option to kernel. See Linux Documentation/admin-guide/init.rst for guidance.
  ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: No working init found.  Try passing init= option to kernel. See Linux Documentation/admin-guide/init.rst for guidance.


TO REPRODUCE

The failure is intermittent.

Using some tools:
  - initramfs: https://github.com/stffrdhrn/or1k-utils
  - compiler: https://github.com/openrisc/or1k-gcc/releases (or1k-linux-5.4.0-20170218.tar.xz)
  - qemu: version 2.9

Make and run using:
  make ARCH=openrisc defconfig
  make -j5 ARCH=openrisc CROSS_COMPILE=or1k-linux- \
  CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE="../openrisc/or1k-utils/initramfs ../openrisc/or1k-utils/initramfs.devnodes"

  qemu-system-or1k -cpu or1200 -M or1k-sim -kernel vmlinux -serial stdio \
  -nographic -monitor none

-Stafford