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Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 01:15:06 +0000
From: KY Srinivasan <kys@...rosoft.com>
To: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@...il.com>,
"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] hv: Don't OOPS when can't init vmbus
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sasha Levin [mailto:levinsasha928@...il.com]
> Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2011 7:48 PM
> To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
> Cc: Sasha Levin; Greg Kroah-Hartman; KY Srinivasan
> Subject: [PATCH] hv: Don't OOPS when can't init vmbus
>
> The hv vmbus driver was causing an OOPS since it was trying to register drivers
> on top of the bus even if initialization of the bus has failed for some
> reason (such as the odd chance someone would run a hv enabled kernel in a
> non-hv environment).
I suspect this must have been the case where the drivers were being built into the kernel?
>
> The following OOPS was happening:
>
> [ 2.822634] kernel BUG at drivers/base/driver.c:227!
> [ 2.822734] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
> [ 2.822734] CPU 0
> [ 2.822734] Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 3.2.0-rc2-sasha-00146-gc729049-
> dirty #13
> [ 2.822734] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81769563>] [<ffffffff81769563>]
> driver_register+0x1f/0x104
> [ 2.822734] RSP: 0018:ffff880012499e00 EFLAGS: 00010246
> [ 2.822734] RAX: ffffffff822f9fc0 RBX: ffffffff822fa5e0 RCX: 0000000046494648
> [ 2.822734] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000003 RDI: ffffffff822fa5e0
> [ 2.822734] RBP: ffff880012499e30 R08: 0000000000000002 R09: ffffffff8221ab98
> [ 2.822734] R10: ffff880012499c20 R11: 0000000000000000 R12:
> 0000000000000000
> [ 2.822734] R13: ffffffff81ff810a R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
> [ 2.822734] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff880013a00000(0000)
> knlGS:0000000000000000
> [ 2.822734] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
> [ 2.822734] CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 0000000002205000 CR4:
> 00000000000406f0
> [ 2.822734] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2:
> 0000000000000000
> [ 2.822734] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7:
> 0000000000000400
> [ 2.822734] Process swapper (pid: 1, threadinfo ffff880012498000, task
> ffff880012490000)
> [ 2.822734] Stack:
> [ 2.822734] ffff880012499e60 ffffffff822fa5c0 0000000000000000 ffffffff81ff810a
> [ 2.822734] 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffff880012499e60
> ffffffff8190f991
> [ 2.822734] ffffffff83388110 ffffffff8274d4a8 ffffffff8269a649 0000000000000000
> [ 2.822734] Call Trace:
> [ 2.822734] [<ffffffff8190f991>] __vmbus_driver_register+0x47/0x59
> [ 2.822734] [<ffffffff8269a649>] ? hv_acpi_init+0x199/0x199
> [ 2.822734] [<ffffffff8269a670>] init_hyperv_utils+0x27/0x29
> [ 2.822734] [<ffffffff82656c02>] do_one_initcall+0x7a/0x135
> [ 2.822734] [<ffffffff82656da7>] kernel_init+0xea/0x16f
> [ 2.822734] [<ffffffff81b99144>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
> [ 2.822734] [<ffffffff81b966b8>] ? retint_restore_args+0x13/0x13
> [ 2.822734] [<ffffffff82656cbd>] ? do_one_initcall+0x135/0x135
> [ 2.822734] [<ffffffff81b99140>] ? gs_change+0x13/0x13
> [ 2.822734] Code: d2 74 07 48 8b 82 d0 00 00 00 c9 c3 55 48 89 e5 41 57 41 56 41 55
> 41 54 53 48 89 fb 48 83 ec 08 48 8b 47 08 48 83 78 68 00 75 02 <0f> 0b 48 83 78 30 00
> 74 07 48 83 7f 30 00 75 1c 48 83 78 38 00
> [ 2.822734] RIP [<ffffffff81769563>] driver_register+0x1f/0x104
> [ 2.822734] RSP <ffff880012499e00>
>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
> Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@...rosoft.com>
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@...il.com>
> ---
>
> btw, It would be nice if it could also get a MAINTAINERS entry.
>
> I'm pretty sure Greg isn't the maintainer, but his name was on
> top of the commit signers.
Yes; I am going to fix this very shortly.
>
> drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++
> 1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c b/drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c
> index 0c048dd..d3b0b4f 100644
> --- a/drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c
> +++ b/drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c
> @@ -62,6 +62,14 @@ struct hv_device_info {
> struct hv_dev_port_info outbound;
> };
>
> +static int vmbus_exists(void)
> +{
> + if (hv_acpi_dev == NULL)
> + return -ENODEV;
> +
> + return 0;
> +}
> +
>
> static void get_channel_info(struct hv_device *device,
> struct hv_device_info *info)
> @@ -590,6 +598,10 @@ int __vmbus_driver_register(struct hv_driver
> *hv_driver, struct module *owner, c
>
> pr_info("registering driver %s\n", hv_driver->name);
>
> + ret = vmbus_exists();
> + if (ret < 0)
> + return ret;
> +
> hv_driver->driver.name = hv_driver->name;
> hv_driver->driver.owner = owner;
> hv_driver->driver.mod_name = mod_name;
> @@ -614,6 +626,9 @@ void vmbus_driver_unregister(struct hv_driver
> *hv_driver)
> {
> pr_info("unregistering driver %s\n", hv_driver->name);
>
> + if (!vmbus_exists())
> + return;
> +
> driver_unregister(&hv_driver->driver);
>
> }
While this is harmless; I think this might be redundant. Once
register succeeds, unregister cannot fail.
> @@ -776,6 +791,7 @@ static int __init hv_acpi_init(void)
>
> cleanup:
> acpi_bus_unregister_driver(&vmbus_acpi_driver);
> + hv_acpi_dev = NULL;
> return ret;
> }
>
> --
> 1.7.8.rc1
Thanks Sasha.
Regards,
K. Y
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