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Given that this fired on the grouplist and not on the unix_gid object itself is a significant hint, I think. The unix_gid object is RCU freed, but the group list is not. I think we need to ensure that the grouplist is only freed after the RCU grace period.
I have a patch that I think might fix this. Is this reliably reproducible at all? I can give you a test kernel if so.
(In reply to Jeff Layton from comment #1)
> Given that this fired on the grouplist and not on the unix_gid object itself
> is a significant hint, I think. The unix_gid object is RCU freed, but the
> group list is not. I think we need to ensure that the grouplist is only
> freed after the RCU grace period.
>
> I have a patch that I think might fix this. Is this reliably reproducible at
> all? I can give you a test kernel if so.
Yes, there is a 20% probability to reproduce this problem stably using the internal
existing test case. I will test it once I get a test kernel.