On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 08:08:42PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 18:10:15 +0300 Alexey Dobriyan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > We can take proc_subdir_lock for duration of list searching and removing
> > from lists only. It can't hurt -- we can gather any amount of looked up
> > PDEs right after proc_subdir_lock droppage in proc_lookup() anyway.
> > Current code should already deal with this correctly.
> >
> > Also this should make code more undestandable:
> > * original looks like a loop, however, it's a loop with unconditional
> > trailing "break;" -- not loop at all.
> > * more explicit statement that proc_subdir_lock protects only ->subdir lists.
>
> oopses the Vaio.
>
>
> [ 12.595145] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000030
> [ 12.598487] printing eip: c01a607f *pde = 00000000
> [ 12.601795] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT
> [ 12.605101] last sysfs file:
> [ 12.608432] Modules linked in:
> [ 12.611727]
> [ 12.615000] Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted (2.6.24-rc3-mm1 #4)
> [ 12.618345] EIP: 0060:[<c01a607f>] EFLAGS: 00010206 CPU: 0
> [ 12.621713] EIP is at remove_proc_entry+0x69/0x16c
> [ 12.625071] EAX: 00000000 EBX: f726d940 ECX: f726d9bd EDX: 00000000
> [ 12.628445] ESI: 00000030 EDI: f726d940 EBP: f7841e3c ESP: f7841dcc
> [ 12.631747] DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 0000 GS: 0000 SS: 0068
> [ 12.635052] Process swapper (pid: 1, ti=F7840000 task=F783ED30 task.ti=F7840000)
> [ 12.635181] Stack: 00000005 f726d9c0 c042747c f7841df0 c0131992 00000282 f7841e1c 00000005
> [ 12.638669] 00000000 00000046 00000174 00000000 c0138012 00000000 00000000 00000000
> [ 12.642173] f783f2e0 f783ed30 00000000 f783ed30 c0320d27 00000010 f7841e34 c013a1e4
> [ 12.645623] Call Trace:
> [ 12.652432] [<c0104e0c>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x12/0x25
> [ 12.655938] [<c0104eab>] show_stack_log_lvl+0x8c/0x9e
> [ 12.659333] [<c0104f47>] show_registers+0x8a/0x1c0
> [ 12.662755] [<c010516b>] die+0xee/0x1c4
> [ 12.666101] [<c0117a18>] do_page_fault+0x405/0x4e1
> [ 12.669427] [<c0320fda>] error_code+0x6a/0x70
> [ 12.672700] [<c0151d13>] unregister_handler_proc+0x1b/0x1d
> [ 12.675974] [<c0150bb2>] free_irq+0xb3/0xdc
> [ 12.679227] [<c028a51b>] yenta_probe_cb_irq+0xc9/0xd6
> [ 12.682482] [<c028a829>] ti12xx_override+0x12b/0x4c5
> [ 12.685782] [<c028b270>] yenta_probe+0x2b1/0x55d
> [ 12.689042] [<c01fed0d>] pci_device_probe+0x39/0x5b
> [ 12.692276] [<c025a9ad>] driver_probe_device+0xd1/0x147
> [ 12.695492] [<c025ab37>] __driver_attach+0x6a/0xa1
> [ 12.698666] [<c0259ee9>] bus_for_each_dev+0x37/0x5c
> [ 12.701783] [<c025a816>] driver_attach+0x14/0x16
> [ 12.704891] [<c025a220>] bus_add_driver+0x7a/0x191
> [ 12.708015] [<c025ad08>] driver_register+0x57/0x5c
> [ 12.711095] [<c01fee6f>] __pci_register_driver+0x56/0x83
> [ 12.714170] [<c047203c>] yenta_socket_init+0x14/0x16
> [ 12.717195] [<c0458650>] kernel_init+0xc5/0x20f
> [ 12.720120] [<c0104aaf>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
> [ 12.723041] =======================
> [ 12.725918] INFO: lockdep is turned off.
> [ 12.728813] Code: 75 94 83 c6 38 eb 24 8b 55 f0 89 d9 8b 45 90 e8 ab fe ff ff 85 c0 74 0e 8b 43 30 89 df 89 06 c7 43 30 00 00 00 00 8b 36 83 c6 30 <8b> 1e 85 db 75 d6 b8 e0 2b 43 c0 e8 ab ab 17 00 85 ff 0f 84 e3
> [ 12.735473] EIP: [<c01a607f>] remove_proc_entry+0x69/0x16c SS:ESP 0068:f7841dcc
>
> (gdb) l *0xc01a4fdf
> 0xc01a4fdf is in remove_proc_entry (fs/proc/generic.c:698).
> warning: Source file is more recent than executable.
>
> 693 if (!parent && xlate_proc_name(name, &parent, &fn) != 0)
> 694 return;
> 695 len = strlen(fn);
> 696
> 697 spin_lock(&proc_subdir_lock);
> 698 for (p = &parent->subdir; *p; p=&(*p)->next ) {
> 699 if (!proc_match(len, fn, *p))
> 700 continue;
> 701 de = *p;
> 702 *p = de->next;
703 de->next = NULL;
break; <===
704 }
>
> iirc this is what Andy was hitting.
Doh! this was missing "break;". I'll resend the patch and refcounting fixes
soon.
P.S.: Do you make notches on Vaio-of-death?
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