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Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:12:43 +0530
From: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: David Woodhouse <david.woodhouse@...el.com>
CC: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
linux-next@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
kernel-testers@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
Jaswinder Singh <jaswinder@...radead.org>,
"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...ux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for June 26
David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 01:38 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>> commit 423c982fffb1cd95c8cdd654ce5ab59351ba41f5
>> Author: Jaswinder Singh <jaswinder@...radead.org>
>> Date: Wed Jun 18 19:58:33 2008 +0530
>>
>> firmware: convert tg3 driver to request_firmware()
>>
>> breaks my nx6325.
>>
>> Apparently, with this patch applied the tg3 has a NULL pointer dereference
>> somewhere, but I can only see the first line of the oops, afterwards the box
>> hangs solid.
>
> That's a 5705, isn't it? So using the 'tso5' firmware?
>
> Is that firmware available (did you either build it into your kernel, or
> run 'make INSTALL_FW_PATH=/lib/firmware firmware_install')?
>
> Not that it matters; I suspect the driver isn't trying to load it at
> all. Can you test this patch, please?
>
> (There are more cleanups I want to do to the error paths here, but those
> should be harmless and irrelevant: http://david.woodhou.se/tg3.patch )
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/tg3.c b/drivers/net/tg3.c
> index a70147d..bad784b 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/tg3.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/tg3.c
> @@ -12234,11 +12234,6 @@ static int __devinit tg3_init_one(struct pci_dev *pdev,
>
> if (tp->tg3_flags2 & TG3_FLG2_HW_TSO) {
> tp->tg3_flags2 |= TG3_FLG2_TSO_CAPABLE;
> -
> - if (GET_ASIC_REV(tp->pci_chip_rev_id) == ASIC_REV_5705)
> - fw_name = "tigon/tg3_tso5.bin";
> - else
> - fw_name = "tigon/tg3_tso.bin";
> }
> else if (GET_ASIC_REV(tp->pci_chip_rev_id) == ASIC_REV_5700 ||
> GET_ASIC_REV(tp->pci_chip_rev_id) == ASIC_REV_5701 ||
> @@ -12248,6 +12243,13 @@ static int __devinit tg3_init_one(struct pci_dev *pdev,
> tp->tg3_flags2 &= ~TG3_FLG2_TSO_CAPABLE;
> } else {
> tp->tg3_flags2 |= TG3_FLG2_TSO_CAPABLE | TG3_FLG2_TSO_BUG;
> + printk("this code path would have forgotten to load the firmware\n");
> + }
> + if (tp->tg3_flags2 & TG3_FLG2_TSO_CAPABLE) {
> + if (GET_ASIC_REV(tp->pci_chip_rev_id) == ASIC_REV_5705)
> + fw_name = "tigon/tg3_tso5.bin";
> + else
> + fw_name = "tigon/tg3_tso.bin";
> }
>
> if (fw_name) {
>
Hi David,
Thanks, the patch fixes the kernel panic on x86_64 boxes. (the panic message
is listed below)
Tested-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000008
IP: [<ffffffff803be1e8>] tg3_reset_hw+0xf48/0x154b
PGD add0067 PUD ad1a067 PMD 0
Oops: 0000 [1] SMP
last sysfs file: /sys/class/net/eth1/address
CPU 2
Modules linked in: battery ac lp parport_pc parport nvram amd_rng rng_core i2c_amd756 i2c_core pcspkr button
Pid: 1919, comm: ip Not tainted 2.6.26-rc8-next-20080627-autotest #1
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff803be1e8>] [<ffffffff803be1e8>] tg3_reset_hw+0xf48/0x154b
RSP: 0018:ffff81000ad21d38 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 000000000040a026 RBX: 000000000001f800 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000006 RSI: 0000000000005400 RDI: ffff81003d4e8740
RBP: ffff81003d4e8740 R08: 0000000000000002 R09: 0000000000000008
R10: 0000000000000009 R11: ffffffff804773d9 R12: 0000000001000008
R13: 00000000000003fe R14: ffff81003d4e8748 R15: 0000000000000000
FS: 00007f600a2586f0(0000) GS:ffff81003f99e800(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: 0000000000000008 CR3: 000000000c0c6000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Process ip (pid: 1919, threadinfo ffff81000ad20000, task ffff81003d519db0)
Stack: ffff81003d4e8740 0000000000000074 0000000000000028 ffff000880340430
ffff81003d4e8740 ffff81003d4e8800 ffff81003d4e8740 0000000000001002
0000000000000000 ffff81003d4e8748 ffff81003d4e8000 ffffffff803c2a7a
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff803c2a7a>] tg3_open+0x29a/0x5e8
[<ffffffff80317af4>] selinux_capable+0x87/0x90
[<ffffffff80486e13>] dev_open+0x6b/0x9e
[<ffffffff80484fd8>] dev_change_flags+0xa6/0x15d
[<ffffffff804c42ed>] devinet_ioctl+0x243/0x59e
[<ffffffff80278baf>] handle_mm_fault+0x32b/0x6a5
[<ffffffff80479488>] sock_ioctl+0x1d4/0x1f8
[<ffffffff8029eb09>] vfs_ioctl+0x21/0x6b
[<ffffffff8029edaf>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x25c/0x275
[<ffffffff8029ee19>] sys_ioctl+0x51/0x70
[<ffffffff8020bcfb>] system_call_after_swapgs+0x7b/0x80
Code: ef e8 63 a0 ff ff 8b 85 88 07 00 00 a8 20 0f 84 06 01 00 00 a9 00 00 01 08 0f 85 fb 00 00 00 48 8b 8d 48 0b 00 00 be 00 54 00 00 <48> 8b 51 08 8b 42 04 48 83 c2 0c 0f c8 89 04 24 8b 01 b9 00 40
RIP [<ffffffff803be1e8>] tg3_reset_hw+0xf48/0x154b
RSP <ffff81000ad21d38>
CR2: 0000000000000008
---[ end trace beeca7990caa7b8a ]---
Kernel panic - not syncing: Aiee, killing interrupt handler!
Pid: 1919, comm: ip Tainted: G D 2.6.26-rc8-next-20080627-autotest #1
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff802336e3>] panic+0x86/0x144
[<ffffffff802530a9>] kallsyms_lookup+0x49/0x80
[<ffffffff803be1e8>] tg3_reset_hw+0xf48/0x154b
[<ffffffff80234256>] printk+0x4e/0x56
[<ffffffff80234256>] printk+0x4e/0x56
[<ffffffff802367d6>] do_exit+0x71/0x67c
[<ffffffff804fdbe1>] oops_begin+0x0/0x8c
[<ffffffff804ffafb>] do_page_fault+0x77b/0x834
[<ffffffff804fd829>] error_exit+0x0/0x51
[<ffffffff804773d9>] pci_conf1_write+0x0/0xdb
[<ffffffff803be1e8>] tg3_reset_hw+0xf48/0x154b
[<ffffffff803be0b3>] tg3_reset_hw+0xe13/0x154b
[<ffffffff803c2a7a>] tg3_open+0x29a/0x5e8
[<ffffffff80317af4>] selinux_capable+0x87/0x90
[<ffffffff80486e13>] dev_open+0x6b/0x9e
[<ffffffff80484fd8>] dev_change_flags+0xa6/0x15d
[<ffffffff804c42ed>] devinet_ioctl+0x243/0x59e
[<ffffffff80278baf>] handle_mm_fault+0x32b/0x6a5
[<ffffffff80479488>] sock_ioctl+0x1d4/0x1f8
[<ffffffff8029eb09>] vfs_ioctl+0x21/0x6b
[<ffffffff8029edaf>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x25c/0x275
[<ffffffff8029ee19>] sys_ioctl+0x51/0x70
[<ffffffff8020bcfb>] system_call_after_swapgs+0x7b/0x80
--
Thanks & Regards,
Kamalesh Babulal,
Linux Technology Center,
IBM, ISTL.
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