linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Fix rmmod of asus

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Message-Id: <200708240104.37974.lenb@kernel.org>
Date:	Fri, 24 Aug 2007 01:04:37 -0400
From:	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>
To:	"Guillaume Chazarain" <guichaz@...oo.fr>
Cc:	"Corentin Chary" <corentincj@...aif.net>,
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, acpi4asus-user@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix rmmod of asus_laptop

Applied.

thanks,
-Len

On Thursday 16 August 2007 12:18, Guillaume Chazarain wrote:
> [Resent, with a bigger recipients list]
> 
> Hi,
> 
> The asus laptop driver conditionnaly registers leds in asus_led_register()
> depending on their availability, but unconditionnaly registers them all at
> exit time or when the module fails to load. Unregistering not registered leds
> result in the following Oops. So we should check before unregistering.
> 
> DEV: Unregistering device. ID = 'asus-laptop'
> PM: Removing info for No Bus:asus-laptop
> kobject_uevent_env
> fill_kobj_path: path = '/class/backlight/asus-laptop'
> kobject asus-laptop: cleaning up
> DEV: Unregistering device. ID = '<NULL>'
> BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual
> address 00000064
>  printing eip:
> c026a9a3
> *pde = 00000000
> Oops: 0000 [#1]
> PREEMPT
> Modules linked in: radeon drm cpufreq_ondemand acpi_cpufreq freq_table
> lm90 hwmon ipv6 binfmt_misc dm_mirror dm_mod snd_intel8x0
> snd_intel8x0m snd_ac97_codec snd_seq_dummy ac97_bus snd_seq_oss
> snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_seq_device snd_pcm_oss hci_usb
> snd_mixer_oss bluetooth snd_pcm ohci1394 snd_timer ieee1394 sr_mod snd
> cdrom ipw2200 ieee80211 firewire_ohci asus_laptop rtc_cmos
> firewire_core button video i2c_i801 rtc_core serio_raw soundcore irda
> crc_ccitt crc_itu_t output ac ieee80211_crypt battery i2c_core
> led_class sdhci mmc_core snd_page_alloc iTCO_wdt sg rtc_lib skge
> ehci_hcd ohci_hcd uhci_hcd
> CPU:    0
> EIP:    0060:[<c026a9a3>]    Not tainted VLI
> EFLAGS: 00210296   (2.6.23-rc3-patched #2)
> EIP is at device_del+0xb/0x23a
> eax: 00000000   ebx: 00000000   ecx: 00000033   edx: f7d0c7c0
> esi: f88ab580   edi: 00000880   ebp: f594ef1c   esp: f594ef0c
> ds: 007b   es: 007b   fs: 0000  gs: 0033  ss: 0068
> Process rmmod (pid: 2552, ti=f594e000 task=f628e5b0 task.ti=f594e000)
> Stack: c011fb2e 00000000 f88ab580 00000880 f594ef30 c026abf8 c03a85df 000000a4
>        f88ab780 f594ef40 f8864218 f88ab780 00000000 f594ef48 f88a90f8 f594ef50
>        f88a91c9 f594efb0 c013cee1 73757361 70616c5f 00706f74 c015c10a 00000004
> Call Trace:
>  [<c0107ee3>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x2f
>  [<c0107f95>] show_stack_log_lvl+0x9d/0xa5
>  [<c010816a>] show_registers+0x1cd/0x2e3
>  [<c010839d>] die+0x11d/0x218
>  [<c032d2f9>] do_page_fault+0x511/0x5e9
>  [<c032bae2>] error_code+0x6a/0x70
>  [<c026abf8>] device_unregister+0x26/0x32
>  [<f8864218>] led_classdev_unregister+0x58/0x94 [led_class]
>  [<f88a90f8>] asus_led_exit+0x17/0x41 [asus_laptop]
>  [<f88a91c9>] asus_laptop_exit+0xd/0x3f [asus_laptop]
>  [<c013cee1>] sys_delete_module+0x17b/0x1a2
>  [<c0106eae>] sysenter_past_esp+0x6b/0xa1
>  =======================
> Code: 8b 56 04 89 d8 e8 10 fb ff ff 85 ff 74 0d 8b 97 d0 00 00 00 89
> d8 e8 9d ff ff ff 5b 5e 5f 5d c3 55 89 e5 57 56 53 89 c3 83 ec 04 <8b>
> 40 64 85 c0 89 45 f0 74 08 8d 43 10 e8 e0 ee 0b 00 8b 83 20
> EIP: [<c026a9a3>] device_del+0xb/0x23a SS:ESP 0068:f594ef0c
> 
> Signed-off-by: Guillaume Chazarain <guichaz@...oo.fr>
> ---
> 
> diff -r 1559df81a153 drivers/misc/asus-laptop.c
> --- a/drivers/misc/asus-laptop.c	Mon Aug 13 05:00:33 2007 +0000
> +++ b/drivers/misc/asus-laptop.c	Tue Aug 14 13:06:40 2007 +0200
> @@ -1072,7 +1072,8 @@ static void asus_backlight_exit(void)
>  }
> 
>  #define  ASUS_LED_UNREGISTER(object)				\
> -	led_classdev_unregister(&object##_led)
> +	if (object##_led.dev)					\
> +		led_classdev_unregister(&object##_led)
> 
>  static void asus_led_exit(void)
>  {
> 
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