Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753512AbcLHLiT (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Dec 2016 06:38:19 -0500 Received: from mail-oi0-f66.google.com ([209.85.218.66]:34726 "EHLO mail-oi0-f66.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753446AbcLHLiQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Dec 2016 06:38:16 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <6c5ea183-4ef8-7524-034d-69fb388a3a7a@samsung.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> From: =?UTF-8?B?UmFmYcWCIE1pxYJlY2tp?= Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2016 12:38:14 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [BUG 4.9] New led trigger usbport gets the kernel to panic To: Jacek Anaszewski Cc: Pavel Machek , Ralph Sennhauser , "open list:LED SUBSYSTEM" , Richard Purdie , =?UTF-8?B?UmFmYcWCIE1pxYJlY2tp?= , Greg Kroah-Hartman , "linux-usb@vger.kernel.org" , Linux Kernel Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by mail.home.local id uB8BcWMX011192 Content-Length: 5022 Lines: 120 On 8 December 2016 at 09:40, Jacek Anaszewski wrote: > 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. If board has any USB ports you shouldn't have empty directory. What about: ls /sys/bus/usb/devices/*/*-port* | grep ":" -- Rafał