[Bug 1742502] [NEW] 108 and 109 kernel hangs

[Joey Stanford]

Public bug reported:

Overnight I had 2 of 12 16.04 servers brick with the 108 kernel. They
also do not work with 109. They work fine with 104. The other 10 worked
fine on both 108 and 109.

All are hosted on VMWARE. The two broken ones stop at the same place. I
was able to go back to the 104 kernel to get them working and pin the
kernel version.

Just for fun, I set zswap.enabled=0 and they both crashed with kthread
starved for jiffies. They are both multi-processor with lots of ram and
disk.

I have a task from the Ubuntu Kernel team to try this with 'nopti'. I'll
report back.

** Affects: linux (Ubuntu)
Importance: High
Status: Triaged

** Affects: linux (Ubuntu Xenial)
Importance: High
Status: Triaged


** Tags: pti

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[Leann Ogasawara]

** Tags added: pti

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Triaged

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => High

** Also affects: linux (Ubuntu Xenial)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Xenial)
Status: New => Triaged

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Xenial)
Importance: Undecided => High
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[Joey Stanford]

booting on 109 with nopti works! Good call Leann.
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[Joseph Salisbury]

** Tags added: kernel-key
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[Joey Stanford]

Additional info in hopes it proves useful.

On the hung boots, there is no recorded output to disk unfortunately.

This is what's installed on the machine running 108 nopti:
***@www:~$ dpkg -l linux* |grep ii
ii linux-base 4.0ubuntu1 all Linux image base package
ii linux-firmware 1.157.14 all Firmware for Linux kernel drivers
ii linux-generic 4.4.0.109.114 amd64 Complete Generic Linux kernel and headers
ii linux-headers-4.4.0-104 4.4.0-104.127 all Header files related to Linux kernel version 4.4.0
ii linux-headers-4.4.0-104-generic 4.4.0-104.127 amd64 Linux kernel headers for version 4.4.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-headers-4.4.0-108 4.4.0-108.131 all Header files related to Linux kernel version 4.4.0
ii linux-headers-4.4.0-108-generic 4.4.0-108.131 amd64 Linux kernel headers for version 4.4.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-headers-4.4.0-109 4.4.0-109.132 all Header files related to Linux kernel version 4.4.0
ii linux-headers-4.4.0-109-generic 4.4.0-109.132 amd64 Linux kernel headers for version 4.4.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-headers-generic 4.4.0.109.114 amd64 Generic Linux kernel headers
ii linux-image-4.4.0-104-generic 4.4.0-104.127 amd64 Linux kernel image for version 4.4.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-4.4.0-108-generic 4.4.0-108.131 amd64 Linux kernel image for version 4.4.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-4.4.0-109-generic 4.4.0-109.132 amd64 Linux kernel image for version 4.4.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-extra-4.4.0-104-generic 4.4.0-104.127 amd64 Linux kernel extra modules for version 4.4.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-extra-4.4.0-108-generic 4.4.0-108.131 amd64 Linux kernel extra modules for version 4.4.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-extra-4.4.0-109-generic 4.4.0-109.132 amd64 Linux kernel extra modules for version 4.4.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-generic 4.4.0.109.114 amd64 Generic Linux kernel image


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[Joey Stanford]

112 kernel has the same issue. Adding nopti allows it to boot.
What's different: It stops after zswap loading.
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[Joseph Salisbury]

Can you see if this bug still occurs with the 116 kernel in -proposed?

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/4.4.0-116.140
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[Joey Stanford]

Joe,

116 puts VMWARE into a loop. It forces a hard reboot somewhere during
the init process (scrolls by too fast). If I had NOPTI it boots
normally. So I would say, no, 116 does not fix this.
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** Tags removed: kernel-key
** Tags added: kernel-da-key
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