[patch] Re: linux-2.6.today: rtc_cmos init oops/panic inrtc_sysfs_remove_device()
From: Mike Galbraith
Date: Sun Feb 25 2007 - 03:32:23 EST
On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 11:26 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> Kernel I captured this from is dirty, but virgin source does exactly the
> same. gzipped config attached.
>
>
> [ 32.211999] rtc_cmos 00:03: rtc core: registered rtc_cmos as rtc0
> [ 32.227226] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000018
> [ 32.245198] printing eip:
> [ 32.257172] c03c7cc8
> [ 32.268434] *pde = 00000000
> [ 32.280222] Oops: 0000 [#1]
> [ 32.291997] PREEMPT SMP
> [ 32.303352] Modules linked in:
> [ 32.315009] CPU: 0
> [ 32.315010] EIP: 0060:[<c03c7cc8>] Not tainted VLI
> [ 32.315011] EFLAGS: 00010202 (2.6.20-smp-g575d5e72-dirty #25)
> [ 32.353865] EIP is at rtc_sysfs_remove_device+0x18/0x4b
> [ 32.367596] eax: 00000000 ebx: dfef0454 ecx: c03c7cb0 edx: c064212c
> [ 32.383044] esi: dfef0454 edi: c19c5f00 ebp: c18ede3c esp: c18ede38
> [ 32.398590] ds: 007b es: 007b fs: 00d8 gs: 0000 ss: 0068
> [ 32.413219] Process swapper (pid: 1, ti=c18ed000 task=c18eca50 task.ti=c18ed000)
> [ 32.420821] Stack: c064212c c18ede5c c0350b5e c19c5e74 00000000 c19c5f08 dfef0454 dfef050c
> [ 32.438377] c1997244 c18ede68 c0350c21 dfef0454 c18ede78 c03c752f fffffff0 c199741c
> [ 32.456025] c18edea8 c03c931d 00000000 00000020 00000004 c04f8c60 00000008 00000000
> [ 32.473692] Call Trace:
> [ 32.493941] [<c0105146>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x30
> [ 32.508144] [<c0105201>] show_stack_log_lvl+0xa5/0xca
> [ 32.522210] [<c0105422>] show_registers+0x1fc/0x341
> [ 32.536006] [<c0105683>] die+0x11c/0x22b
> [ 32.548692] [<c011cb3b>] do_page_fault+0x160/0x575
> [ 32.562185] [<c04cea7c>] error_code+0x7c/0x84
> [ 32.575029] [<c0350b5e>] class_device_del+0x72/0x12a
> [ 32.588332] [<c0350c21>] class_device_unregister+0xb/0x15
> [ 32.601816] [<c03c752f>] rtc_device_unregister+0x2c/0x30
> [ 32.615146] [<c03c931d>] cmos_pnp_probe+0x147/0x1ee
> [ 32.627927] [<c03200fc>] pnp_device_probe+0x4c/0xa0
> [ 32.640614] [<c03501f3>] really_probe+0x5c/0x163
> [ 32.652999] [<c0350397>] driver_probe_device+0x9d/0xa9
> [ 32.665800] [<c03504bc>] __driver_attach+0x84/0x86
> [ 32.678364] [<c034f7e3>] bus_for_each_dev+0x44/0x62
> [ 32.690966] [<c03500bf>] driver_attach+0x19/0x1b
> [ 32.703177] [<c034fb0a>] bus_add_driver+0x6a/0x185
> [ 32.715467] [<c0350659>] driver_register+0x54/0x84
> [ 32.727547] [<c031fef1>] pnp_register_driver+0x17/0x19
> [ 32.739810] [<c067f648>] cmos_init+0xd/0xf
> [ 32.751078] [<c066358c>] init+0x114/0x23c
> [ 32.762285] [<c0104dbb>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x1c
> [ 32.774782] =======================
> [ 32.785651] Code: 8b 45 f0 e8 0a 5a 10 00 89 f8 83 c4 04 5b 5e 5f 5d c3 90 55 89 e5 53 89 c3 8b 40 6c f6 80 2c 01 00 00 01 74 0d 8b 83 b4 00 00 00 <8b> 40 18 85 c0 75 10 8d 43 08 ba 48 21 64 c0 e8 75 e4 de ff 5b
> [ 32.830191] EIP: [<c03c7cc8>] rtc_sysfs_remove_device+0x18/0x4b SS:ESP 0068:c18ede38
> [ 32.846381] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
I took a look at it this morning. If CONFIG_PNPACPI is set, and
request_resource() fails in cmos_do_probe(), rtc_does_wakealarm()
dereferences rtc->ops which we NULLed in rtc_device_unregister().
Fix NULL pointer dereference in cmos_rtc registration failure path.
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/rtc/class.c b/drivers/rtc/class.c
index 7a0d8ee..9201786 100644
--- a/drivers/rtc/class.c
+++ b/drivers/rtc/class.c
@@ -113,10 +113,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rtc_device_register);
*/
void rtc_device_unregister(struct rtc_device *rtc)
{
+ class_device_unregister(&rtc->class_dev);
mutex_lock(&rtc->ops_lock);
rtc->ops = NULL;
mutex_unlock(&rtc->ops_lock);
- class_device_unregister(&rtc->class_dev);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rtc_device_unregister);
-
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