Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753085AbcLHKng (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Dec 2016 05:43:36 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:53932 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752383AbcLHKnd (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Dec 2016 05:43:33 -0500 Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2016 11:43:37 +0100 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Jacek Anaszewski Cc: =?utf-8?B?UmFmYcWCIE1pxYJlY2tp?= , Pavel Machek , Ralph Sennhauser , "open list:LED SUBSYSTEM" , Richard Purdie , =?utf-8?B?UmFmYcWCIE1pxYJlY2tp?= , "linux-usb@vger.kernel.org" , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [BUG 4.9] New led trigger usbport gets the kernel to panic Message-ID: <20161208104337.GA26647@kroah.com> References: <20161121094022.30478a37@gmail.com> <43ea90fb-780a-3612-77dd-265e877ac18e@milecki.pl> <20161201152825.3b2686db@gmail.com> <20161202094818.6b9c1ed2@gmail.com> <20161206172619.GB4406@amd> <6c5ea183-4ef8-7524-034d-69fb388a3a7a@samsung.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <6c5ea183-4ef8-7524-034d-69fb388a3a7a@samsung.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.7.2 (2016-11-26) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 5337 Lines: 112 On Thu, Dec 08, 2016 at 09:40:43AM +0100, Jacek Anaszewski wrote: > Hi Rafał, > > On 12/06/2016 06:29 PM, Rafał Miłecki wrote: > > On 6 December 2016 at 18:26, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > On Fri 2016-12-02 09:48:18, Ralph Sennhauser wrote: > > > > On Thu, 1 Dec 2016 17:56:07 +0100 > > > > Rafał Miłecki wrote: > > > > > > > > > On 12/01/2016 03:28 PM, Ralph Sennhauser wrote: > > > > > > Below the oops with your debug patch applied. > > > > > > > > > > > > (...) > > > > > > > > > > > > root@wrt1900acs:/# cd sys/class/leds/pca963x\:shelby\:white\:usb2/ > > > > > > root@wrt1900acs:/sys/devices/platform/soc/soc:internal-regs/f1011000.i2c/i2c-0/0-0068/leds/pca963x:shelby:white:usb2# > > > > > > echo usbport > trigger [ 124.727665] leds > > > > > > pca963x:shelby:white:usb2: [usbport_trig_add_port] port:dd708240 > > > > > > [ 124.735266] leds pca963x:shelby:white:usb2: > > > > > > [usbport_trig_add_port] port->port_name:usb1-port1 > > > > > > port->data:dd708140 [ 124.745671] leds pca963x:shelby:white:usb2: > > > > > > [usbport_trig_add_port] port:dd7083c0 [ 124.753194] leds > > > > > > pca963x:shelby:white:usb2: [usbport_trig_add_port] > > > > > > port->port_name:usb2-port1 port->data:dd708140 [ 124.763594] leds > > > > > > pca963x:shelby:white:usb2: [usbport_trig_add_port] port:dd708300 > > > > > > [ 124.771114] leds pca963x:shelby:white:usb2: > > > > > > [usbport_trig_add_port] port->port_name:usb3-port1 > > > > > > port->data:dd708140 > > > > > > root@wrt1900acs:/sys/devices/platform/soc/soc:internal-regs/f1011000.i2c/i2c-0/0-0068/leds/pca963x:shelby:white:usb2# > > > > > > echo 1 > ports/usb2-port1[ 171.649751] leds > > > > > > pca963x:shelby:white:usb2: [usbport_trig_port_store] buf:1 > > > > > > [ 171.649751] size:2 > > > > > > > > > > > > [ 171.660160] leds pca963x:shelby:white:usb2: > > > > > > [usbport_trig_port_store] port:dd7083c0 [ 171.668103] leds > > > > > > pca963x:shelby:white:usb2: [usbport_trig_port_store] > > > > > > port->port_name:usb2-port1 port->data:dd708140 [ 171.678678] > > > > > > [usbport_trig_update_count] usbport_data->count:0 [ 171.684457] > > > > > > [usbport_trig_update_count] usbport_data->count:0 [ 171.690253] > > > > > > Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address > > > > > > 00000000 > > > > > > > > > > Oh, so this happens a bit later than I expected or I could read from > > > > > the backtrace. Anyway this debugging was still helpful, I think I can > > > > > see a possible problem. > > > > > > > > > > So most likely the crash happens at the: > > > > > led_cdev->brightness_set(led_cdev, ...); > > > > > call. I'm not sure what I was thinking when writing that code. It > > > > > looks wrong. > > > > > > > > > > The thing is some LEDs (drivers) don't provide brightness_set op. > > > > > It's fine, we should just use brightness_set_blocking op when that > > > > > happens. Of course kernel has proper helpers for that, we don't have > > > > > to worry about the choice of op or scheduling the work. I have no > > > > > idea why I didn't use a proper helper in the first place. > > > > > > > > > > So we should simply replace above call with one of following ones: > > > > > 1) led_set_brightness(led_cdev, ...); > > > > > 2) led_set_brightness_nosleep(led_cdev, ...); > > > > > 3) led_set_brightness_sync(led_cdev, ...); > > > > > > > > > > I still have to check which one is correct. In theory we don't deal > > > > > blinking at this point so we shouldn't need to use led_set_brightness. > > > > > > > > > > led_set_brightness_nosleep looks like the most likely correct choice. > > > > > > > > > > led_set_brightness_sync requires brightness_set_blocking which is not > > > > > always present so most likely we don't want this one. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > If you have some free time and you want to play with this, please > > > > > replace led_cdev->brightness_set > > > > > with > > > > > led_set_brightness_nosleep > > > > > and give it a try. This should fix crashes for you. > > > > > > > > > > I'll look at this again during next days. > > > > > > > > Hi Rafał > > > > > > > > I just gave 2) led_set_brightness_nosleep a try. The kernel no longer > > > > crashes and the led does work as expected. > > > > > > Do you have any patch that needs to be applied? > > > > Yes, it has been pushed: > > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb.git/commit/?h=usb-next&id=89778ba335e302a450932ce5b703c1ee6216e949 > > > > When sending it I didn't Cc linux-leds as get_maintainer.pl didn't > > pick it. Should we add MAINTAINERS entry for ledtrig-usbport.c maybe? > > > > I haven't tested this trigger earlier, probably due to the fact that > it was targeted for usb subsystem, sorry about that. Nonetheless, > I've just tried it on exynos4412-trats2 board and it seems not to > work properly. > > I have the board connected through USB (I have an opened ssh session), > I'm doing "echo usbport > trigger", then I can see the "ports" > directory, but it is empty. > > Any ideas on the possible reasons? Exynos4412-trats2 uses > Ethernet Gadget (with CDC Ethernet support) USB Gadget Driver > for USB networking. This trigger is for when your device is a USB host, not a gadget, so I don't think it works on your hardware :) thanks, greg k-h