From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>,
devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>,
Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: show_uevent() and general protection fault
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 10:27:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120816172711.GB27415@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120718051552.GA9124@localhost>
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 01:15:52PM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 06:33:42PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 04:46:16PM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> > > This is another kconfig, produced a bit different call trace, however
> > > also related to sysfs_read_file().
> >
> > Any hint as to which file is being read?
>
> Good idea! I added this debugging aid:
>
> --- a/fs/sysfs/file.c
> +++ b/fs/sysfs/file.c
> @@ -129,6 +129,11 @@ sysfs_read_file(struct file *file, char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
> {
> struct sysfs_buffer * buffer = file->private_data;
> ssize_t retval = 0;
> + char pathname[300], *path;
> +
> + path = d_path(&(file->f_path), pathname, sizeof(pathname));
> + if (!IS_ERR(path))
> + printk("%s\n", path);
>
> mutex_lock(&buffer->mutex);
> if (buffer->needs_read_fill || *ppos == 0) {
>
> And find some sysfs files that triggered the errors:
>
> wfg@waimea ~/kvm% grep -hB1 'kernel paging request' /tmp/dmesg-kvm_bisect-waimea-*|grep /sys/
> [ 28.995741] /sys/module/tpm_tis/parameters/hid
> [ 60.885798] /sys/module/tpm_tis/parameters/hid
>
> wfg@waimea ~/kvm% grep -hB1 'general protection fault' /tmp/dmesg-kvm_bisect-waimea-*|grep -o /sys/.* | sort -u
> /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0103:00/uevent
> /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0A03:00/device:21/PNP0303:00/uevent
> /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0A03:00/device:21/PNP0400:00/uevent
> /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0A03:00/device:21/PNP0501:00/uevent
> /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0A03:00/device:21/PNP0700:00/uevent
> /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0A03:00/device:21/PNP0B00:00/uevent
> /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0A03:00/device:21/PNP0F13:00/uevent
> /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0A03:00/uevent
> /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0C0F:00/uevent
> /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0C0F:01/uevent
> /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0C0F:02/uevent
> /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0C0F:03/uevent
> /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXCPU:00/uevent
> /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXCPU:01/uevent
> /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXPWRBN:00/input/input0/uevent
> /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXPWRBN:00/uevent
> /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/uevent
> /sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input1/uevent
This is odd, I can't duplicate it at all, is it still showing up for
you?
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-16 17:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-13 7:59 Fengguang Wu
2012-07-13 8:31 ` Fengguang Wu
2012-07-13 8:46 ` Fengguang Wu
2012-07-17 1:33 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-18 5:15 ` Fengguang Wu
2012-08-16 17:27 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2012-08-17 2:06 ` Fengguang Wu
2012-08-17 2:29 ` Fengguang Wu
2012-08-17 2:44 ` Ming Lei
2012-08-17 2:56 ` Fengguang Wu
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