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Message-ID: <op.wyolrqyo9ey1ta@localhost>
Date:	Fri, 14 Jun 2013 21:32:04 +0300
From:	nirinA raseliarison <nirina.raseliarison@...il.com>
To:	"Bjorn Helgaas" <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
	"Ming Lei" <ming.lei@...onical.com>
Cc:	"nirinA raseliarison" <nirina.raseliarison@...il.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Francois Romieu" <romieu@...zoreil.com>, nic_swsd@...ltek.com,
	"Hayes Wang" <hayeswang@...ltek.com>,
	"Guenter Roeck" <linux@...ck-us.net>
Subject: Re: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at
 0000000000000040

on Fri, 14 Jun 2013 20:02:25 +0300, Ming Lei <ming.lei@...onical.com>  
wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 10:30 PM, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>  
> wrote:
>> [+cc Ming, Hayes, Francois, r8169 list]
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 6:49 AM, nirinA raseliarison
>> <nirina.raseliarison@...il.com> wrote:
>>> hello there,
>>> i have this ethernet controler:
>>>
>>>  Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast  
>>> Ethernet
>>> controller (rev 05)
>>>
>>> that uses the r8169 module.
>>> it works fine, but sometimes after a reboot and issueing:
>>>
>>>  ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.1 up
>>>
>>> i got the message below. after another reboot the
>>> message disappears. i also get the same message this 3.9.5 and 3.9.4.
>>>
>>> it seems i catch my first oops and don't know what to do with it.
>>> currently running:
>>>
>>>  cat /proc/version
>>>  Linux version 3.9.6.20130614 (root@...ernova) (gcc version 4.8.1  
>>> (GCC) ) #1
>>> SMP Fri Jun 14 09:14:50 EAT 2013
>>>
>>>  uname -a
>>>  Linux supernova 3.9.6.20130614 #1 SMP Fri Jun 14 09:14:50 EAT 2013  
>>> x86_64
>>> Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU G1610 @ 2.60GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
>>>
>>> thanks,
>>> -----------------8<------------------------------8<---------------------------------------
>>>
>>> [   57.877560] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at
>>> 0000000000000040
>>> [   57.877603] IP: [<ffffffff81491844>] fw_load_abort.isra.5+0x4/0x20
>>> [   57.877634] PGD 21330a067 PUD 211a3a067 PMD 0
>>> [   57.877660] Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP
>>> [   57.877681] Modules linked in: fuse coretemp kvm_intel kvm evdev  
>>> r8169
>>> microcode mii
>>> [   57.877735] CPU 0
>>> [   57.877746] Pid: 1950, comm: firmware Not tainted 3.9.6.20130614 #1  
>>> To be
>>> filled by O.E.M. To be filled by O.E.M./ONDA H61V Ver:4.01
>>> [   57.877790] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81491844>]  [<ffffffff81491844>]
>>> fw_load_abort.isra.5+0x4/0x20
>>> [   57.877824] RSP: 0018:ffff8802119a7e80  EFLAGS: 00010246
>>> [   57.877844] RAX: ffff8802158fe250 RBX: ffff880211a03b40 RCX:
>>> 0000000000000000
>>> [   57.877869] RDX: ffffffff81c742c8 RSI: ffff8802158fe250 RDI:
>>> 0000000000000000
>>> [   57.877895] RBP: ffff8802119a7e80 R08: ffff8802119a6000 R09:
>>> 00000000000005aa
>>> [   57.877920] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12:
>>> ffffffffffffffff
>>> [   57.877945] R13: ffff880213d34088 R14: 0000000000000003 R15:
>>> ffff88020eafc230
>>> [   57.877970] FS:  00007f3c6cb2a740(0000) GS:ffff88021f200000(0000)
>>> knlGS:0000000000000000
>>> [   57.877998] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
>>> [   57.878019] CR2: 0000000000000040 CR3: 0000000203155000 CR4:
>>> 00000000001407f0
>>> [   57.878044] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2:
>>> 0000000000000000
>>> [   57.878069] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7:
>>> 0000000000000400
>>> [   57.878094] Process firmware (pid: 1950, threadinfo  
>>> ffff8802119a6000,
>>> task ffff8802158fe250)
>>> [   57.878124] Stack:
>>> [   57.878133]  ffff8802119a7eb0 ffffffff81491917 ffff880211a4d5a0
>>> 0000000000000003
>>> [   57.878168]  ffff8802119a7f50 ffffffff818765a0 ffff8802119a7ec0
>>> ffffffff81483063
>>> [   57.878203]  ffff8802119a7f08 ffffffff8119bc9e ffff880213d34098
>>> ffff880211a4d5c0
>>> [   57.878237] Call Trace:
>>> [   57.878251]  [<ffffffff81491917>] firmware_loading_store+0x77/0x150
>>> [   57.878275]  [<ffffffff81483063>] dev_attr_store+0x13/0x20
>>> [   57.878297]  [<ffffffff8119bc9e>] sysfs_write_file+0xce/0x140
>>> [   57.878320]  [<ffffffff81133e8a>] vfs_write+0x9a/0x160
>>> [   57.878340]  [<ffffffff81134164>] sys_write+0x44/0x90
>>> [   57.878360]  [<ffffffff817d70ed>] system_call_fastpath+0x1a/0x1f
>>> [   57.879379] Code: 6b ff ff ff 48 89 df 31 db e8 b9 b0 c9 ff e9 79  
>>> ff ff
>>> ff 0f 1f 40 00 48 83 c4 10 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 5d c3 0f 1f 00 55 48  
>>> 89 e5
>>> <f0> 80 4f 40 04 48 83 c7 18 e8 8e a9 bd ff 5d c3 66 66 66 2e 0f
>>> [   57.881753] RIP  [<ffffffff81491844>] fw_load_abort.isra.5+0x4/0x20
>>> [   57.882888]  RSP <ffff8802119a7e80>
>>> [   57.884019] CR2: 0000000000000040
>>> [   57.885166] ---[ end trace 6705f6d4ce6b6a12 ]---
>
> Looks it is a double abort race, could you try below patch?
> (also attached for applying)

i've also applied this patch and up to now, after
reboot a few times all thing seems to work fine.

thanks,

> --
> diff --git a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c  
> b/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
> index 6ede229..a217ba8 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
> +++ b/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
> @@ -550,7 +550,12 @@ static ssize_t firmware_loading_show(struct device  
> *dev,
>  				     struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
>  {
>  	struct firmware_priv *fw_priv = to_firmware_priv(dev);
> -	int loading = test_bit(FW_STATUS_LOADING, &fw_priv->buf->status);
> +	int loading = 0;
> +
> +	mutex_lock(&fw_lock);
> +	if (fw_priv->buf)
> +		loading = test_bit(FW_STATUS_LOADING, &fw_priv->buf->status);
> +	mutex_unlock(&fw_lock);
>
>  	return sprintf(buf, "%d\n", loading);
>  }
> @@ -592,12 +597,12 @@ static ssize_t firmware_loading_store(struct  
> device *dev,
>  				      const char *buf, size_t count)
>  {
>  	struct firmware_priv *fw_priv = to_firmware_priv(dev);
> -	struct firmware_buf *fw_buf = fw_priv->buf;
> +	struct firmware_buf *fw_buf;
>  	int loading = simple_strtol(buf, NULL, 10);
>  	int i;
>
>  	mutex_lock(&fw_lock);
> -
> +	fw_buf = fw_priv->buf;
>  	if (!fw_buf)
>  		goto out;
>
> @@ -636,6 +641,7 @@ static ssize_t firmware_loading_store(struct device  
> *dev,
>  		/* fallthrough */
>  	case -1:
>  		fw_load_abort(fw_buf);
> +		fw_priv->buf = NULL;
>  		break;
>  	}
>  out:
> @@ -704,6 +710,7 @@ static int fw_realloc_buffer(struct firmware_priv
> *fw_priv, int min_size)
>  				    GFP_KERNEL);
>  		if (!new_pages) {
>  			fw_load_abort(buf);
> +			fw_priv->buf = NULL;
>  			return -ENOMEM;
>  		}
>  		memcpy(new_pages, buf->pages,
> @@ -721,6 +728,7 @@ static int fw_realloc_buffer(struct firmware_priv
> *fw_priv, int min_size)
>
>  		if (!buf->pages[buf->nr_pages]) {
>  			fw_load_abort(buf);
> +			fw_priv->buf = NULL;
>  			return -ENOMEM;
>  		}
>  		buf->nr_pages++;
> @@ -805,6 +813,7 @@ static void firmware_class_timeout_work(struct
> work_struct *work)
>  		return;
>  	}
>  	fw_load_abort(fw_priv->buf);
> +	fw_priv->buf = NULL;
>  	mutex_unlock(&fw_lock);
>  }
>
> @@ -886,8 +895,6 @@ static int _request_firmware_load(struct
> firmware_priv *fw_priv, bool uevent,
>
>  	cancel_delayed_work_sync(&fw_priv->timeout_work);
>
> -	fw_priv->buf = NULL;
> -
>  	device_remove_file(f_dev, &dev_attr_loading);
>  err_del_bin_attr:
>  	device_remove_bin_file(f_dev, &firmware_attr_data);
>
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Ming Lei


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nirinA
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