Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754559Ab3IXSZX (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Sep 2013 14:25:23 -0400 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]:36916 "EHLO youngberry.canonical.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753449Ab3IXSZV (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Sep 2013 14:25:21 -0400 Message-ID: <5241D905.9030001@canonical.com> Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 14:25:09 -0400 From: Joseph Salisbury User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jiri Kosina CC: Dan Carpenter , thomas@m3y3r.de, list@osuosl.org, Haiyang Zhang , LKML , open@osuosl.org, HID CORE LAYER , devel@linuxdriverproject.org Subject: Re: [v3.11][Regression] HID: hyperv: convert alloc+memcpy to memdup References: <5237430B.5040009@canonical.com> <20130916203824.GP25896@mwanda> <52376ED9.5080208@canonical.com> <20130916210503.GQ25896@mwanda> <5237A5D5.8010006@canonical.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1745 Lines: 38 On 09/24/2013 05:29 AM, Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Mon, 16 Sep 2013, Joseph Salisbury wrote: > >>>> Can you explain a little further? Mark commit a4a23f6 as bad? An >>>> initial bisect already reported that was the first bad commit, so it >>>> can't be marked bad. The oops on memcpy() happens after commit a4a23f6 >>>> is reverted. The oops on memcpy() did not happen before a4a23f6 was >>>> committed, so I assume this new oops was introduced by a change later. >>>> >>>> Right now I'm bisecting down the oops on memcpy() by updating the bisect >>>> with good or bad, depending if the test kernel hit the oops. I then >>>> revert a4a23f6, so that revert is the HEAD of the tree each time before >>>> building the kernel again(As long as the commit spit out by bisect is >>>> after when a4a23f6 was introduced). >>> Yep. Please continue bisecting the memcpy() oops. >>> >>> kmemdup() is just a kzalloc() followed by a memcpy(). When we split it >>> apart by reverting the patch then we would expect the oops to move to >>> the memcpy() part. Somehow "desc" is a bogus pointer, but I don't >>> immediately see how that is possible. >>> >>> regards, >>> dan carpenter >> Thanks for the details. We'll continue the bisect and let you know how >> it goes. > Did this please yield any useful result? > > Thanks, > We also tested the 3.12-rc2 kernel, but it also produces an oops and lockup. In case it's of use, the 3.12-rc2 oops can be seen at: https://launchpadlibrarian.net/151359441/kern.log -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/