[copy_namespaces] WARNING: bad unlock balance detected!

[Fengguang Wu]

Hi,

Here is a warning in v4.14-rc8 -- it's not necessarily a new bug.

[  266.395343] rcu-torture: rcu_torture_fakewriter task started
[  266.396862] rcu-torture: Creating rcu_torture_reader task
[  266.416970] rcu-torture: Creating rcu_torture_stats task
[  266.458705] 
[  266.459151] =====================================
[  266.459806] WARNING: bad unlock balance detected!
[  266.462394] 4.14.0-rc8 #166 Not tainted
[  266.462394] -------------------------------------
[  266.462394] kthreadd/2 is trying to release lock (rcu_preempt_state) at:
[  266.462394] [<810a96e7>] rcu_read_unlock_special+0x267/0x2d0
[  266.462394] but there are no more locks to release!
[  266.462394] 
[  266.462394] other info that might help us debug this:
[  266.462394] 1 lock held by kthreadd/2:
[  266.462394]  #0:  (rcu_read_lock){....}, at: [<810606f0>] copy_namespaces+0x0/0x180
[  266.462394] 
[  266.462394] stack backtrace:
[  266.462394] CPU: 0 PID: 2 Comm: kthreadd Not tainted 4.14.0-rc8 #166
[  266.462394] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.10.2-1 04/01/2014
[  266.462394] Call Trace:
[  266.462394]  ? dump_stack+0x74/0xab
[  266.462394]  ? rcu_read_unlock_special+0x267/0x2d0
[  266.462394]  ? print_unlock_imbalance_bug+0xb4/0xc0
[  266.462394]  ? rcu_read_unlock_special+0x267/0x2d0
[  266.462394]  ? lock_release+0x39b/0x3e0
[  266.462394]  ? rt_mutex_unlock+0x18/0x80
[  266.462394]  ? rcu_read_unlock_special+0x267/0x2d0
[  266.462394]  ? __rcu_read_unlock+0x3b/0x60
[  266.462394]  ? copy_namespaces+0xf5/0x180
[  266.462394]  ? copy_process+0x15f0/0x1670
[  266.462394]  ? kthread_stop+0x50/0x50
[  266.462394]  ? kthreadd+0xe5/0x140
[  266.462394]  ? sched_clock+0x9/0x10
[  266.462394]  ? kthreadd+0xe5/0x140
[  266.462394]  ? sched_clock_local+0x1d/0x130
[  266.462394]  ? kthread_stop+0x50/0x50
[  266.462394]  ? _do_fork+0x76/0x480
[  266.462394]  ? finish_task_switch+0x145/0x1c0
[  266.462394]  ? find_held_lock+0x22/0x90
[  266.462394]  ? kthread_stop+0x50/0x50
[  266.462394]  ? kernel_thread+0x19/0x20
[  266.462394]  ? kthreadd+0xf6/0x140
[  266.462394]  ? kthread_create_on_cpu+0x80/0x80
[  266.462394]  ? ret_from_fork+0x19/0x24
[  266.537631] rcu-torture: rcu_torture_reader task started
[  266.541600] rcu-torture: Creating torture_shuffle task
[  266.544634] rcu-torture: rcu_torture_stats task started
[  266.548208] rcu-torture: Creating torture_stutter task
[  266.552156] rcu-torture: torture_shuffle task started

Thanks,
Fengguang