linux-kernel - Re: Crashes in -next due to 'phy: add support for a reset-gpio specification'

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Date:	Tue, 17 May 2016 22:01:37 -0700
From:	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
	"linux-next@...r.kernel.org" <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>,
	Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: Crashes in -next due to 'phy: add support for a reset-gpio
 specification'

Le 17/05/2016 21:37, Guenter Roeck a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> my xtensa qemu tests crash in -next as follows.
> 
> [ ... ]
> 
> [    9.366256] libphy: ethoc-mdio: probed
> [    9.367389]  (null): could not attach to PHY
> [    9.368555]  (null): failed to probe MDIO bus
> [    9.371540] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address
> 0000001c
> [    9.371540]  pc = d0320926, ra = 903209d1
> [    9.375358] Oops: sig: 11 [#1]
> [    9.376081] PREEMPT
> [    9.377080] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper Not tainted
> 4.6.0-next-20160517 #1
> [    9.378397] task: d7c2c000 ti: d7c30000 task.ti: d7c30000
> [    9.379394] a00: 903209d1 d7c31bd0 d7fb5810 00000001 00000000
> 00000000 d7f45c00 d7c31bd0
> [    9.382298] a08: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00060100
> d04b0c10 d7f45dfc d7c31bb0
> [    9.385732] pc: d0320926, ps: 00060110, depc: 00000018, excvaddr:
> 0000001c
> [    9.387061] lbeg: d0322e35, lend: d0322e57 lcount: 00000000, sar:
> 00000011
> [    9.388173]
> Stack: d7c31be0 00060700 d7f45c00 d7c31bd0 9021d509 d7c31c30 d7f45c00
> 00000000
>        d0485dcc d0485dcc d7fb5810 d7c2c000 00000000 d7c31c30 d7f45c00
> d025befc
>        d0485dcc d7c30000 d7f45c34 d7c31bf0 9021c985 d7c31c50 d7f45c00
> d7f45c34
> [    9.396652] Call Trace:
> [    9.397469]  [<d021d4d9>] __device_release_driver+0x7d/0x98
> [    9.398869]  [<d021d509>] device_release_driver+0x15/0x20
> [    9.400247]  [<d021c985>] bus_remove_device+0xc1/0xd4
> [    9.401569]  [<d021a935>] device_del+0x109/0x15c
> [    9.402794]  [<d025c3f9>] phy_mdio_device_remove+0xd/0x18
> [    9.404124]  [<d025d264>] mdiobus_unregister+0x40/0x5c
> [    9.405444]  [<d025ff44>] ethoc_probe+0x534/0x5b8
> [    9.406742]  [<d021e2e0>] platform_drv_probe+0x28/0x48
> [    9.408122]  [<d021d1e5>] driver_probe_device+0x101/0x234
> [    9.409499]  [<d021d395>] __driver_attach+0x7d/0x98
> [    9.410809]  [<d021bd80>] bus_for_each_dev+0x30/0x5c
> [    9.412104]  [<d021cdf0>] driver_attach+0x14/0x18
> [    9.413385]  [<d021ca61>] bus_add_driver+0xc9/0x198
> [    9.414686]  [<d021d7d4>] driver_register+0x70/0xa0
> [    9.416001]  [<d021e2b4>] __platform_driver_register+0x24/0x28
> [    9.417463]  [<d04a1d34>] ethoc_driver_init+0x10/0x14
> [    9.418824]  [<d00032c8>] do_one_initcall+0x80/0x1ac
> [    9.420083]  [<d049386d>] kernel_init_freeable+0x131/0x198
> [    9.421504]  [<d03236e8>] kernel_init+0xc/0xb0
> [    9.422693]  [<d000482c>] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x8/0xc
> 
> Bisect points to commit da47b4572056 ("phy: add support for a reset-gpio
> specification").
> Bisect log is attached. Reverting the patch fixes the problem.

Aside from what you pointed out, this patch was still in dicussion when
it got merged, since we got a concurrent patch from Sergei which tries
to deal with the same kind of problem.

Do you mind sending a revert, or I can do that first thing in the morning.

> 
> I think there may be a number of problems, all of them exposed by the patch
> but really separate.
> 
> GPIOLIB is not configured in my test case, meaning gpiod_get_optional()
> returns -ENOSYS, and phy_probe() thus returns an error. Question here is if
> it is really appropriate for the XXX_optional() gpiolib functions to return
> an error if GPIOLIB is not configured. Either case, result is that pretty
> much all phy registrations will now fail if GPIOLIB is not configured.
> 
> Also, I suspect that there may be a bug in the error handling path
> of ethoc_probe(). No idea what exactly is wrong, though. Other drivers
> use pretty much the same code sequence for mdio registration and associated
> error handling.
> 
> Last but not least, something seems to be wrong with the use of dev_err()
> with &netdev->dev if register_netdev() has not yet been called. Maybe
> someone
> has some insight ?

It all depends if SET_NETDEV_DEV() has had a chance to run, but in
general it is kind of a bad idea to use netdev_* before the interface
has been registered, since it won't have any valid name.
-- 
Florian