Messages in this thread | | | From | Alexander Egorenkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] init/initramfs.c: do unpacking asynchronously | Date | Wed, 28 Jul 2021 12:36:50 +0200 |
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Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> writes:
> On 24/07/2021 09.46, Alexander Egorenkov wrote: >> Hello, >> >> since e7cb072eb988 ("init/initramfs.c: do unpacking asynchronously"), we >> started seeing the following problem on s390 arch regularly: >> >> [ 5.039734] wait_for_initramfs() called before rootfs_initcalls > > While that message was added as part of the same patch, it's a red > herring: It merely means that something ends up calling usermodehelper > (perhaps a request_module) before the init sequence has come around to > rootfs_initcalls. At that point, the rootfs is (with or without my async > patch) entirely empty, so those usermodehelper calls have always failed > with -ENOENT. > > If you have CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER=y and CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH set to > a non-empty string, you can try setting the latter to the empty string. > But the message won't go away if it's really a request_module() and not > a uevent notification. >
Thanks for the helpful explanation. I disabled UEVENT on my test machine and as you said, the message is being triggered by request_module() now.
[ 3.396467] [<00000001f8d917e4>] call_usermodehelper_exec+0x44/0x1c8 [ 3.396470] [<00000001f8da5524>] __request_module+0x17c/0x3d0 [ 3.396473] [<00000001f93b4808>] crypto_alg_mod_lookup+0x228/0x290 [ 3.396475] [<00000001f93b4aae>] crypto_alloc_tfm_node+0x5e/0x158 [ 3.396477] [<00000001f93bbe14>] crypto_alloc_shash+0x34/0x40 [ 3.396480] [<00000001f93d2ee2>] drbg_init_hash_kernel+0x3a/0x100 [ 3.396482] [<00000001f93d306e>] drbg_alloc_state+0xc6/0x280 [ 3.396484] [<00000001f93d33d8>] drbg_kcapi_seed+0x1b0/0x310 [ 3.396486] [<00000001f93d1884>] crypto_rng_reset+0x5c/0xe0 [ 3.396488] [<00000001f93c1750>] alg_test_drbg+0x300/0x478 [ 3.396490] [<00000001f93c0934>] alg_test+0x304/0x530 [ 3.396493] [<00000001f93bedb8>] cryptomgr_test+0x68/0x70 [ 3.396495] [<00000001f8d9f40c>] kthread+0x14c/0x160 [ 3.396497] [<00000001f8d2af14>] __ret_from_fork+0x3c/0x58 [ 3.396500] [<00000001f984c86a>] ret_from_fork+0xa/0x30
Regards Alex
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