Re: [PATCH] can: m_can: initialize spin lock on device probe

[Antonios Salios]

On Fri, 2025-04-25 at 00:23 +0900, Vincent Mailhol wrote:
> Maybe you can briefly describe what kind of bug (NULL pointer
> dereference).

It's a spinlock bad magic bug that occurs when one tries to send a CAN
frame using cansend. The frame gets transferred nonetheless.
I'm testing the driver in an virtual RISC-V 64-bit environment with a
recent mainline kernel. The M_CAN controller is io-mapped to the
system.

> Also, if you have the dmesg log of the error, this is something you
> can add at
> the end of the patch description.

Will do, I'm just waiting for more feedback on the patch before sending
a v3. In the meantime, the dmesg log looks like this:

$ cansend can0 123#deadbeef
[   10.631450] BUG: spinlock bad magic on CPU#0, cansend/95
[   10.631462]  lock: 0xff60000002ec1010, .magic: 00000000, .owner:
<none>/-1, .owner_cpu: 0
[   10.631479] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 95 Comm: cansend Not tainted 6.15.0-
rc3-00032-ga79be02bba5c #5 NONE
[   10.631487] Hardware name: MachineWare SIM-V (DT)
[   10.631490] Call Trace:
[   10.631493] [<ffffffff800133e0>] dump_backtrace+0x1c/0x24
[   10.631503] [<ffffffff800022f2>] show_stack+0x28/0x34
[   10.631510] [<ffffffff8000de3e>] dump_stack_lvl+0x4a/0x68
[   10.631518] [<ffffffff8000de70>] dump_stack+0x14/0x1c
[   10.631526] [<ffffffff80003134>] spin_dump+0x62/0x6e
[   10.631534] [<ffffffff800883ba>] do_raw_spin_lock+0xd0/0x142
[   10.631542] [<ffffffff807a6fcc>] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x20/0x2c
[   10.631554] [<ffffffff80536dba>] m_can_start_xmit+0x90/0x34a
[   10.631567] [<ffffffff806148b0>] dev_hard_start_xmit+0xa6/0xee
[   10.631577] [<ffffffff8065b730>] sch_direct_xmit+0x114/0x292
[   10.631586] [<ffffffff80614e2a>] __dev_queue_xmit+0x3b0/0xaa8
[   10.631596] [<ffffffff8073b8fa>] can_send+0xc6/0x242
[   10.631604] [<ffffffff8073d1c0>] raw_sendmsg+0x1a8/0x36c
[   10.631612] [<ffffffff805ebf06>] sock_write_iter+0x9a/0xee
[   10.631623] [<ffffffff801d06ea>] vfs_write+0x184/0x3a6
[   10.631633] [<ffffffff801d0a88>] ksys_write+0xa0/0xc0
[   10.631643] [<ffffffff801d0abc>] __riscv_sys_write+0x14/0x1c
[   10.631654] [<ffffffff8079ebf8>] do_trap_ecall_u+0x168/0x212
[   10.631662] [<ffffffff807a830a>] handle_exception+0x146/0x152

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Antonios Salios
Software Engineer

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