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Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2015 11:53:32 -0400
From: Murali Karicheri <m-karicheri2@...com>
To: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>
CC: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>, LKP <lkp@...org>,
"linux-pci@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PCI] BUG: unable to handle kernel
On 03/09/2015 10:44 AM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 9:17 AM, Murali Karicheri<m-karicheri2@...com> wrote:
>> On 03/06/2015 12:58 PM, Murali Karicheri wrote:
>>>
>>> On 03/06/2015 11:55 AM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Mar 06, 2015 at 10:48:59AM -0500, Murali Karicheri wrote:
>>>> [ ... ]
>>>>
>>>>>> From 098b4f5e4ab9407fbdbfcca3a91785c17e25cf03 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>>>>> From: Murali Karicheri<m-karicheri2@...com>
>>>>> Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 10:23:08 -0500
>>>>> Subject: [PATCH] pci: of : fix kernel crash
>>>>>
>>>>> This is a debug patch to root cause the kernel crash
>>>>>
>>>>> commit 0b2af171520e5d5e7d5b5f479b90a6a5014d9df6
>>>>>
>>>>> PCI: Update DMA configuration from DT
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Murali Karicheri<m-karicheri2@...com>
>>>>> ---
>>>>> drivers/of/of_pci.c | 8 ++++++++
>>>>> drivers/pci/host-bridge.c | 5 +++++
>>>>> 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+)
>>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/drivers/of/of_pci.c b/drivers/of/of_pci.c
>>>>> index 86d3c38..5a59fb8 100644
>>>>> --- a/drivers/of/of_pci.c
>>>>> +++ b/drivers/of/of_pci.c
>>>>> @@ -129,6 +129,14 @@ void of_pci_dma_configure(struct pci_dev *pci_dev)
>>>>> struct device *dev =&pci_dev->dev;
>>>>> struct device *bridge = pci_get_host_bridge_device(pci_dev);
>>>>>
>>>>> + if (!bridge || !bridge->parent) {
>>>>> + if (!bridge)
>>>>> + pr_err("PCI bridge not found\n");
>>>>> + if (!bridge->parent)
>>>>> + pr_err("PCI bridge parent not found\n");
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> You'll see a crash here if bridge is NULL. Maybe add an else before
>>>> the second
>>>> if statement ? Also, dev_err might be a bit more useful and would be
>>>> available.
>>>>
>>> Fixed and attached.
>>>
>>> Murali
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Guenter
>>>>
>>>>> + return;
>>>>> + }
>>>>> +
>>>>> of_dma_configure(dev, bridge->parent->of_node);
>>>>> pci_put_host_bridge_device(bridge);
>>>>> }
>>>>> diff --git a/drivers/pci/host-bridge.c b/drivers/pci/host-bridge.c
>>>>> index 3e5bbf9..ef2ab51 100644
>>>>> --- a/drivers/pci/host-bridge.c
>>>>> +++ b/drivers/pci/host-bridge.c
>>>>> @@ -28,6 +28,11 @@ struct device *pci_get_host_bridge_device(struct
>>>>> pci_dev *dev)
>>>>> struct pci_bus *root_bus = find_pci_root_bus(dev->bus);
>>>>> struct device *bridge = root_bus->bridge;
>>>>>
>>>>> + if (!bridge) {
>>>>> + pr_err("PCI: bridge not found\n");
>>>>> + return NULL;
>>>>> + }
>>>>> +
>>>>> kobject_get(&bridge->kobj);
>>>>> return bridge;
>>>>> }
>>>>> --
>>>>> 1.7.9.5
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>> BJorn,
>>
>> Any chance of applying the attached debug patch to see if this fixes and
>> provide some additional information on this BUG? Not sure who will pick this
>> one and apply.
>
> The change that caused the oops (0b2af171520e ("PCI: Update DMA
> configuration from DT")) only exists on my pci/iommu branch, so I'm
> the one to apply it.
>
> It's much easier for me to deal with plain text patches (not attachments).
>
> I'm hesitating because I don't want to encourage use of the 0-day
> testing robot as a tool at which we can just throw debug patches. The
> robot is a service that costs somebody real money, and I want to be a
> good neighbor when using it.
Thanks for the clarification as I don't have much information on the
testing robot. At the same time the question is how similar incidence in
the past have been handled. I am a newbie w.r.t to this. This is first
time I have introduced a patch that impacts multiple arch/machines.
>
> Was the information in the robot's report enough to reproduce the
> oops? If not, is there additional information we could add to the
> report that would enable you to reproduce it? Even if we can't
> reproduce the oops, the report seems detailed enough that we should be
> able to deduce the problem and produce a fix in which we have high
> confidence.
The BUG report essentially indicates the crash happened in
of_pci_dma_configure(). The machine specific log make sense to a person
familiar with this arch and I am not familiar with the same. So anyone
can help narrow down the root cause of this?
Looking at the code, there are two ptr variables that are accessed
without checking for NULL as initial thinking was that these can never
be NULL. So the debug patch is just adding addition check before
accessing the ptr. I can send this patch without debug prints if that
make sense. I was thinking to get confirmation that this is indeed the
case before adding the check. What do you think the right approach here?
Send a patch for this to the ML for adding the check as a potential fix?
Or someone can help me investigate the crash dump and root cause it? or
if we can use test robot to confirm this, I can re-send the patch ASIS
to the list. Please clarify.
Thanks and regards,
Murali
>
> Bjorn
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