FYI, we noticed the following commit (built with gcc-7): commit: 926250338c94ed8fd19677f861fef00bf6de7af7 ("cgroup: get rid of cgroup_freezer_frozen_exit()") https://github.com/rgushchin/linux.git freezer.10 in testcase: libhugetlbfs-test with following parameters: pagesize: 2MB on test machine: qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -cpu SandyBridge -smp 2 -m 2G caused below changes (please refer to attached dmesg/kmsg for entire log/backtrace): +-------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+ | | 8ad29ba936 | 926250338c | +-------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+ | boot_successes | 4 | 1 | | boot_failures | 0 | 8 | | WARNING:at_kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c:#cgroup_exit | 0 | 4 | | RIP:cgroup_exit | 0 | 4 | | BUG:kernel_reboot-without-warning_in_test_stage | 0 | 2 | | BUG:kernel_in_stage | 0 | 2 | +-------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+ If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag Reported-by: kernel test robot <rong.a.chen(a)intel.com&gt; [ 44.576072] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 3028 at kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c:5932 cgroup_exit+0x148/0x160 [ 44.577724] Modules linked in: crct10dif_pclmul crc32_pclmul crc32c_intel ghash_clmulni_intel sr_mod cdrom bochs_drm sg ttm ata_generic pata_acpi ppdev drm_kms_helper snd_pcm syscopyarea aesni_intel snd_timer sysfillrect sysimgblt snd crypto_simd cryptd glue_helper soundcore fb_sys_fops joydev drm serio_raw pcspkr ata_piix libata i2c_piix4 floppy parport_pc parport ip_tables [ 44.583106] CPU: 1 PID: 3028 Comm: ptrace-write-hu Not tainted 5.1.0-rc3-00053-g9262503 #5 [ 44.584600] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.10.2-1 04/01/2014 [ 44.586116] RIP: 0010:cgroup_exit+0x148/0x160 [ 44.587135] Code: 0f 84 50 ff ff ff 48 8b 85 c8 0c 00 00 48 8b 78 70 e8 ec 2e 00 00 e9 3b ff ff ff f0 ff 43 60 0f 88 72 21 89 00 e9 48 ff ff ff <0f> 0b e9 1b ff ff ff e8 3c 73 f4 ff 66 90 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 [ 44.590113] RSP: 0018:ffffb25702dcfd30 EFLAGS: 00010002 [ 44.591167] RAX: ffff96a7fee32410 RBX: ffff96a7ff1d6000 RCX: dead000000000200 [ 44.592446] RDX: ffff96a7ff1d6080 RSI: ffff96a7fec75290 RDI: ffff96a7fec75290 [ 44.593715] RBP: ffff96a7fec745c0 R08: ffff96a7fec74658 R09: 0000000000000000 [ 44.594985] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffff96a7fec75101 [ 44.596266] R13: ffff96a7fec745c0 R14: ffff96a7ff3bde30 R15: ffff96a7fec75130 [ 44.597550] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff96a7dd700000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 44.598950] CS: 0010 DS: 002b ES: 002b CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 44.600098] CR2: 00000000f7a00000 CR3: 000000000d20e000 CR4: 00000000000406e0 [ 44.601417] Call Trace: [ 44.602777] do_exit+0x337/0xc40 [ 44.603677] do_group_exit+0x3a/0xa0 [ 44.604610] get_signal+0x12e/0x8d0 [ 44.605533] ? __switch_to_asm+0x40/0x70 [ 44.606503] do_signal+0x36/0x650 [ 44.607409] ? __switch_to_asm+0x40/0x70 [ 44.608383] ? __schedule+0x267/0x860 [ 44.609329] exit_to_usermode_loop+0x89/0xf0 [ 44.610349] do_fast_syscall_32+0x251/0x2e3 [ 44.611357] entry_SYSENTER_compat+0x7f/0x91 [ 44.612376] ---[ end trace e4ca5cfc4b7f7964 ]--- To reproduce: # build kernel cd linux cp config-5.1.0-rc3-00053-g9262503 .config make HOSTCC=gcc-7 CC=gcc-7 ARCH=x86_64 olddefconfig make HOSTCC=gcc-7 CC=gcc-7 ARCH=x86_64 prepare make HOSTCC=gcc-7 CC=gcc-7 ARCH=x86_64 modules_prepare make HOSTCC=gcc-7 CC=gcc-7 ARCH=x86_64 SHELL=/bin/bash make HOSTCC=gcc-7 CC=gcc-7 ARCH=x86_64 bzImage git clone https://github.com/intel/lkp-tests.git cd lkp-tests bin/lkp qemu -k <bzImage> job-script # job-script is attached in this email Thanks, Rong Chen