From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759794Ab2INSGH (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Sep 2012 14:06:07 -0400 Received: from mail.digium.com ([216.207.245.2]:50925 "EHLO mail.digium.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754956Ab2INSFe (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Sep 2012 14:05:34 -0400 From: Shaun Ruffell To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-edac@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH v2 0/3] Fix edac_mc crash in e7xxx_edac error path. Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 12:58:15 -0500 Message-Id: <1347645498-21215-1-git-send-email-sruffell@digium.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.11.2 In-Reply-To: <1345349484-31552-1-git-send-email-sruffell@digium.com> References: <1345349484-31552-1-git-send-email-sruffell@digium.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org v2: Use '!device_is_registered(&mci->dev)' instead of 'if (!mci->bus.name)' to check if mem_ctl_info has been registered with sysfs. v1: With kernel version 3.6-rc2 on a Dell Poweredge 2600 I experienced a NULL pointer dereference that did not occur with on 3.5. I believe the error is related to commit de3910eb79a "edac: change the mem allocation scheme to make Documentation/kobject.txt happy" [1] and the fact that my system is going through an error path in the e7xxx_edac driver. [1] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=commit;h=de3910eb79ac8c0f29a11224661c0ebaaf813039 This is the OOPS: [ 36.703479] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null) [ 36.703479] IP: [] __wake_up_common+0x1a/0x6a [ 36.703479] *pde = 7f0c6067 [ 36.703479] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP [ 36.703479] Modules linked in: parport_pc parport floppy e7xxx_edac(+) ide_cd_mod edac_core intel_rng cdrom microcode(+) dm_snapshot dm_zero dm_mirror dm_region_hash d [ 36.703479] Pid: 933, comm: modprobe Tainted: G W 3.6.0-rc2-00111-gc1999ee #12 Dell Computer Corporation PowerEdge 2600 /0F0364 [ 36.703479] EIP: 0060:[] EFLAGS: 00010093 CPU: 3 [ 36.703479] EIP is at __wake_up_common+0x1a/0x6a [ 36.703479] EAX: f47b0984 EBX: fffffff4 ECX: 00000000 EDX: 00000003 [ 36.703479] ESI: f47b0984 EDI: 00000282 EBP: f3dc7d38 ESP: f3dc7d1c [ 36.703479] DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0033 SS: 0068 [ 36.703479] CR0: 8005003b CR2: 00000000 CR3: 347d4000 CR4: 000007d0 [ 36.703479] DR0: 00000000 DR1: 00000000 DR2: 00000000 DR3: 00000000 [ 36.703479] DR6: ffff0ff0 DR7: 00000400 [ 36.703479] Process modprobe (pid: 933, ti=f3dc6000 task=f3db9520 task.ti=f3dc6000) [ 36.703479] Stack: [ 36.703479] 00000000 00000000 00000003 c046701a f47b0980 f47b0984 00000282 f3dc7d54 [ 36.703479] c046703f 00000000 00000000 f47b08b0 f47b08b0 00000000 f3dc7d74 c06961ce [ 36.703479] f3dc7d74 f3dc7d80 c05e2837 c094c4cc f47b08b0 f47b08b0 f3dc7d88 c068d56d [ 36.703479] Call Trace: [ 36.703479] [] ? complete_all+0x1a/0x50 [ 36.703479] [] complete_all+0x3f/0x50 [ 36.703479] [] device_pm_remove+0x23/0xa2 [ 36.703479] [] ? kobject_put+0x5b/0x5d [ 36.703479] [] device_del+0x34/0x142 [ 36.703479] [] edac_unregister_sysfs+0x3b/0x5c [edac_core] [ 36.703479] [] edac_mc_free+0x29/0x2f [edac_core] [ 36.703479] [] e7xxx_probe1+0x268/0x311 [e7xxx_edac] [ 36.703479] [] ? __pci_enable_device_flags+0x8f/0xd3 [ 36.703479] [] e7xxx_init_one+0x56/0x61 [e7xxx_edac] [ 36.703479] [] local_pci_probe+0x13/0x15 ... Fengguang Wu (1): edac_mc: fix kfree calls in the error path Shaun Ruffell (2): edac: edac_mc_free() cannot assume mem_ctl_info is registered in sysfs. edac: edac_mc no longer deals with kobjects directly. drivers/edac/edac_mc.c | 64 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------- include/linux/edac.h | 1 - 2 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-) -- 1.7.11.2