Re: [PATCH 0/3] Fix edac_mc crash in e7xxx_edac error path.

From: Shaun Ruffell
Date: Sat Sep 08 2012 - 14:56:26 EST


Just a friendly reminder that I'm still seeing this NULL pointer
dereference on boot with 3.6-rc4.

On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 11:11:21PM -0500, Shaun Ruffell wrote:
> 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: [<c045e195>] __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:[<c045e195>] 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] [<c046701a>] ? complete_all+0x1a/0x50
> [ 36.703479] [<c046703f>] complete_all+0x3f/0x50
> [ 36.703479] [<c06961ce>] device_pm_remove+0x23/0xa2
> [ 36.703479] [<c05e2837>] ? kobject_put+0x5b/0x5d
> [ 36.703479] [<c068d56d>] device_del+0x34/0x142
> [ 36.703479] [<f8547884>] edac_unregister_sysfs+0x3b/0x5c [edac_core]
> [ 36.703479] [<f8545041>] edac_mc_free+0x29/0x2f [edac_core]
> [ 36.703479] [<f860163f>] e7xxx_probe1+0x268/0x311 [e7xxx_edac]
> [ 36.703479] [<c0603d00>] ? __pci_enable_device_flags+0x8f/0xd3
> [ 36.703479] [<f8601b0b>] e7xxx_init_one+0x56/0x61 [e7xxx_edac]
> [ 36.703479] [<c0604f85>] local_pci_probe+0x13/0x15
> [ 36.703479] [<c0605115>] pci_call_probe+0x1c/0x1e
> [ 36.703479] [<c0605158>] __pci_device_probe+0x41/0x4e
> [ 36.703479] [<c060579c>] pci_device_probe+0x26/0x39
> [ 36.703479] [<c06901ed>] really_probe+0x101/0x2a1
> [ 36.703479] [<c0690680>] ? __driver_attach+0x3d/0x6e
> [ 36.703479] [<c0690680>] ? __driver_attach+0x3d/0x6e
> [ 36.703479] [<c07e0000>] ? quirk_usb_disable_ehci+0xa3/0x141
> [ 36.703479] [<c06903c2>] driver_probe_device+0x35/0x79
> [ 36.703479] [<c06906af>] __driver_attach+0x6c/0x6e
> [ 36.703479] [<c068eb25>] bus_for_each_dev+0x44/0x62
> [ 36.703479] [<c068ff00>] driver_attach+0x1e/0x20
> [ 36.703479] [<c0690643>] ? device_attach+0x98/0x98
> [ 36.703479] [<c068fa12>] bus_add_driver+0xc5/0x1c8
> [ 36.703479] [<c0605beb>] ? store_new_id+0xfa/0xfa
> [ 36.703479] [<c0690bfb>] driver_register+0x52/0xd6
> [ 36.703479] [<f8604000>] ? 0xf8603fff
> [ 36.703479] [<c0605a30>] __pci_register_driver+0x4b/0x73
> [ 36.703479] [<f8604000>] ? 0xf8603fff
> [ 36.703479] [<f8604055>] e7xxx_init+0x55/0x57 [e7xxx_edac]
> [ 36.703479] [<c040120e>] do_one_initcall+0xa3/0xe0
> [ 36.703479] [<c0491023>] sys_init_module+0x70/0x1af
> [ 36.703479] [<c04823a9>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x56/0xf9
> [ 36.703479] [<c05ec7e8>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0xc/0x10
> [ 36.703479] [<c07f678c>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x32
> [ 36.703479] Code: 5d c3 55 89 e5 3e 8d 74 26 00 e8 8f ff ff ff 5d c3 55 89 e5 57 56 53 83 ec 10 3e 8d 74 26 00 89 55 ec 89 4d e8 8b 58 28 83 eb 0c <8b> 53 0c 83 c0 28
> [ 36.703479] EIP: [<c045e195>] __wake_up_common+0x1a/0x6a SS:ESP 0068:f3dc7d1c
> [ 36.703479] CR2: 0000000000000000
> [ 36.703479] ---[ end trace 6fcfddc0eef7bbd8 ]---
>
> When I enabled edac debugging I saw the following printed to the kernel log
> prior to the above BUG:
>
> EDAC MC: Ver: 3.0.0
> EDAC DEBUG: edac_mc_sysfs_init: device mc created
> EDAC DEBUG: e7xxx_init_one:
> EDAC DEBUG: e7xxx_probe1: mci
> EDAC DEBUG: edac_mc_alloc: errcount layer 0 size 8
> EDAC DEBUG: edac_mc_alloc: errcount layer 1 size 16
> EDAC DEBUG: edac_mc_alloc: allocating 48 error counters
> EDAC DEBUG: edac_mc_alloc: allocating 1068 bytes for mci data (16 ranks, 16 csrows/channels)
> EDAC DEBUG: e7xxx_probe1: init mci
> EDAC DEBUG: e7xxx_probe1: init pvt
> EDAC e7xxx: error reporting device not found:vendor 8086 device 0x2541 (broken BIOS?)
> EDAC DEBUG: edac_mc_free:
> Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
> EDAC DEBUG: edac_unregister_sysfs: Unregistering device (null)
>
> There are probably better ways to accomplish what the following patches are
> doing but I thought I would send along what I had if only to motivate any
> discussion. I also have resent Fengguang Wu's patch in this series since I found
> that it was required as well.
>
> Shaun Ruffell (2):
> edac: Remove invalid kfree in error path of edac_mc_allocate().
> edac: edac_mc_free() cannot assume mem_ctl_info is registered in
> sysfs.
>
> drivers/edac/edac_mc.c | 60 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
> 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
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