Date:   Thu, 08 Dec 2016 14:46:34 +0100
From:   Jacek Anaszewski <j.anaszewski@...sung.com>
To:     Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@...il.com>
Cc:     Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
        Ralph Sennhauser <ralph.sennhauser@...il.com>,
        "open list:LED SUBSYSTEM" <linux-leds@...r.kernel.org>,
        Richard Purdie <rpurdie@...ys.net>,
        Rafał Miłecki <rafal@...ecki.pl>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "linux-usb@...r.kernel.org" <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG 4.9] New led trigger usbport gets the kernel to panic

On 12/08/2016 12:38 PM, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> On 8 December 2016 at 09:40, Jacek Anaszewski <j.anaszewski@...sung.com> wrote:
>> On 12/06/2016 06:29 PM, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
>>>
>>> On 6 December 2016 at 18:26, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Fri 2016-12-02 09:48:18, Ralph Sennhauser wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, 1 Dec 2016 17:56:07 +0100
>>>>> Rafał Miłecki <rafal@...ecki.pl> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 12/01/2016 03:28 PM, Ralph Sennhauser wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Below the oops with your debug patch applied.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> (...)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> root@...1900acs:/# cd sys/class/leds/pca963x\:shelby\:white\:usb2/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> root@...1900acs:/sys/devices/platform/soc/soc:internal-regs/f1011000.i2c/i2c-0/0-0068/leds/pca963x:shelby:white:usb2#
>>>>>>> echo usbport > trigger [  124.727665] leds
>>>>>>> pca963x:shelby:white:usb2: [usbport_trig_add_port] port:dd708240
>>>>>>> [  124.735266] leds pca963x:shelby:white:usb2:
>>>>>>> [usbport_trig_add_port] port->port_name:usb1-port1
>>>>>>> port->data:dd708140 [  124.745671] leds pca963x:shelby:white:usb2:
>>>>>>> [usbport_trig_add_port] port:dd7083c0 [  124.753194] leds
>>>>>>> pca963x:shelby:white:usb2: [usbport_trig_add_port]
>>>>>>> port->port_name:usb2-port1 port->data:dd708140 [  124.763594] leds
>>>>>>> pca963x:shelby:white:usb2: [usbport_trig_add_port] port:dd708300
>>>>>>> [  124.771114] leds pca963x:shelby:white:usb2:
>>>>>>> [usbport_trig_add_port] port->port_name:usb3-port1
>>>>>>> port->data:dd708140
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> root@...1900acs:/sys/devices/platform/soc/soc:internal-regs/f1011000.i2c/i2c-0/0-0068/leds/pca963x:shelby:white:usb2#
>>>>>>> echo 1 > ports/usb2-port1[  171.649751] leds
>>>>>>> pca963x:shelby:white:usb2: [usbport_trig_port_store] buf:1
>>>>>>> [  171.649751]  size:2
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [  171.660160] leds pca963x:shelby:white:usb2:
>>>>>>> [usbport_trig_port_store] port:dd7083c0 [  171.668103] leds
>>>>>>> pca963x:shelby:white:usb2: [usbport_trig_port_store]
>>>>>>> port->port_name:usb2-port1 port->data:dd708140 [  171.678678]
>>>>>>> [usbport_trig_update_count] usbport_data->count:0 [  171.684457]
>>>>>>> [usbport_trig_update_count] usbport_data->count:0 [  171.690253]
>>>>>>> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address
>>>>>>> 00000000
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Oh, so this happens a bit later than I expected or I could read from
>>>>>> the backtrace. Anyway this debugging was still helpful, I think I can
>>>>>> see a possible problem.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So most likely the crash happens at the:
>>>>>> led_cdev->brightness_set(led_cdev, ...);
>>>>>> call. I'm not sure what I was thinking when writing that code. It
>>>>>> looks wrong.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The thing is some LEDs (drivers) don't provide brightness_set op.
>>>>>> It's fine, we should just use brightness_set_blocking op when that
>>>>>> happens. Of course kernel has proper helpers for that, we don't have
>>>>>> to worry about the choice of op or scheduling the work. I have no
>>>>>> idea why I didn't use a proper helper in the first place.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So we should simply replace above call with one of following ones:
>>>>>> 1) led_set_brightness(led_cdev, ...);
>>>>>> 2) led_set_brightness_nosleep(led_cdev, ...);
>>>>>> 3) led_set_brightness_sync(led_cdev, ...);
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I still have to check which one is correct. In theory we don't deal
>>>>>> blinking at this point so we shouldn't need to use led_set_brightness.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> led_set_brightness_nosleep looks like the most likely correct choice.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> led_set_brightness_sync requires brightness_set_blocking which is not
>>>>>> always present so most likely we don't want this one.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If you have some free time and you want to play with this, please
>>>>>> replace led_cdev->brightness_set
>>>>>> with
>>>>>> led_set_brightness_nosleep
>>>>>> and give it a try. This should fix crashes for you.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'll look at this again during next days.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Rafał
>>>>>
>>>>> I just gave 2) led_set_brightness_nosleep a try. The kernel no longer
>>>>> crashes and the led does work as expected.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Do you have any patch that needs to be applied?
>>>
>>>
>>> Yes, it has been pushed:
>>>
>>> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb.git/commit/?h=usb-next&id=89778ba335e302a450932ce5b703c1ee6216e949
>>>
>>> When sending it I didn't Cc linux-leds as get_maintainer.pl didn't
>>> pick it. Should we add MAINTAINERS entry for ledtrig-usbport.c maybe?
>>>
>>
>> I haven't tested this trigger earlier, probably due to the fact that
>> it was targeted for usb subsystem, sorry about that. Nonetheless,
>> I've just tried it on exynos4412-trats2 board and it seems not to
>> work properly.
>>
>> I have the board connected through USB (I have an opened ssh session),
>> I'm doing "echo usbport > trigger", then I can see the "ports"
>> directory, but it is empty.
>>
>> Any ideas on the possible reasons? Exynos4412-trats2 uses
>> Ethernet Gadget (with CDC Ethernet support) USB Gadget Driver
>> for USB networking.
>
> If board has any USB ports you shouldn't have empty directory. What about:
> ls /sys/bus/usb/devices/*/*-port* | grep ":"
>

As Greg noticed my device in this configuration is not a USB host, but
gadget, and its /sys/bus/usb/devices/ dir is empty, so it was false
alarm.

-- 
Best regards,
Jacek Anaszewski

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