linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Initialise SAK member for each virtual console to prevent oops

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Date:	Tue, 13 Mar 2007 11:16:13 -0600
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Initialise SAK member for each virtual console to prevent oops


Ugh.  I missed this one, when I fixed this.  Sorry I thought the loop in
con_init() covered all of the consoles and we initialized all of them
at boot time :(

Bernhard Walle <bwalle@...e.de> writes:

> This patch initialises the SAK member of the vc_cons variable on all virtual
> terminals, not only the first one. This prevents an oops when trying
> Sysrq-C on e.g. the second virtual terminal:
>
>   kernel BUG at kernel/workqueue.c:212!
>   invalid opcode: 0000 [1] SMP 
>   CPU 0 
>   Modules linked in: i915 drm deflate zlib_deflate twofish twofish_common
> serpent blowfish des ce
>   Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.21-rc3-default #15
>   RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8028c955>]  [<ffffffff8028c955>] queue_work+0x32/0x51
>   RSP: 0018:ffffffff805fada8  EFLAGS: 00010013
>   RAX: ffffffff80683f38 RBX: ffffffff804ae700 RCX: 0000000000000000
>   RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff80683f30 RDI: ffff81000134a840
>   RBP: 0000000000000001 R08: 0000000000000005 R09: 0000000000000002
>   R10: ffffffff805990e0 R11: ffff810037f4c0f0 R12: 000000000000006b
>   R13: ffff81007aa23000 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 0000000000000096
>   FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffffff804d8000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
>   CS:  0010 DS: 0018 ES: 0018 CR0: 000000008005003b
>   CR2: 00002b72026e9000 CR3: 0000000079175000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
>   Process swapper (pid: 0, threadinfo ffffffff8059e000, task ffffffff80490840)
>   Stack:  0000000000000096 ffffffff803635db ffffffff805fadf8 0000000000000001
>    ffff8100013c2e40 0000000000000025 ffff81007c931c00 ffff81007aa23000
>    0000000000000001 ffffffff8035e3ee 0000000000000092 ffff810037cc8000
>   Call Trace:
>    <IRQ>  [<ffffffff803635db>] __handle_sysrq+0x98/0x129
>    [<ffffffff8035e3ee>] kbd_event+0x32e/0x56a
>    [<ffffffff8037d502>] input_event+0x422/0x44a
>    [<ffffffff80381d71>] atkbd_interrupt+0x449/0x503
>    [<ffffffff8037a42d>] serio_interrupt+0x37/0x6f
>    [<ffffffff8037affb>] i8042_interrupt+0x1f4/0x20a
>    [<ffffffff8026bd20>] smp_send_timer_broadcast_ipi+0x2d/0x4e
>    [<ffffffff8020eee5>] handle_IRQ_event+0x25/0x53
>    [<ffffffff802a924c>] handle_edge_irq+0xe4/0x128
>    [<ffffffff802562ac>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x28
>    [<ffffffff802632eb>] do_IRQ+0x6c/0xd3
>    [<ffffffff8024f4e7>] mwait_idle+0x0/0x45
>    [<ffffffff80255631>] ret_from_intr+0x0/0xa
>    <EOI>  [<ffffffff80248a4d>] datagram_poll+0x0/0xc8
>    [<ffffffff8024f529>] mwait_idle+0x42/0x45
>    [<ffffffff80242c05>] cpu_idle+0x8b/0xae
>    [<ffffffff805a8779>] start_kernel+0x2b9/0x2c5
>    [<ffffffff805a815e>] _sinittext+0x15e/0x162
>
>
>   Code: 0f 0b eb fe 48 8b 07 48 63 d2 48 f7 d0 48 8b 3c d0 e8 13 ff 
>   RIP  [<ffffffff8028c955>] queue_work+0x32/0x51
>    RSP <ffffffff805fada8>
>   Kernel panic - not syncing: Aiee, killing interrupt handler!
>
>
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@...e.de>
Acked-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>

---
 drivers/char/vt.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

Index: linux-2.6.21-rc3/drivers/char/vt.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.21-rc3.orig/drivers/char/vt.c
+++ linux-2.6.21-rc3/drivers/char/vt.c
@@ -724,6 +724,7 @@ int vc_allocate(unsigned int currcons)	/
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	    memset(vc, 0, sizeof(*vc));
 	    vc_cons[currcons].d = vc;
+	    INIT_WORK(&vc_cons[currcons].SAK_work, vc_SAK);
 	    visual_init(vc, currcons, 1);
 	    if (!*vc->vc_uni_pagedir_loc)
 		con_set_default_unimap(vc);
-
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