Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754833AbYHRQdw (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:33:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751502AbYHRQdo (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:33:44 -0400 Received: from py-out-1112.google.com ([64.233.166.178]:32376 "EHLO py-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751260AbYHRQdn (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:33:43 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=rupx4BOdlNJ1UzYSKubN99cBYzYYYdPPtKQTKL1Bwm7tAafnbFGDf4AQnBwNDPzjBJ SD5OpLzPrvBezOhA+n9qQCxA8FEYqffX/wjCYqrNsSk408VJDMAcNxy4dgVjTI4cJ8L2 u67j4f4CQ0/kPZWznhJnC8KjNFTMiweryYs9c= Message-ID: <19f34abd0808180933r509b402i70fced0e1678d6fe@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:33:42 +0200 From: "Vegard Nossum" To: "Andrei Popa" , "Oliver Neukum" , "Greg Kroah-Hartman" Subject: Re: kernel oops Cc: "Andrew Morton" , "Linux Kernel Mailing List" In-Reply-To: <20080723171144.GA7349@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1216817556.4415.29.camel@ierdnac> <20080723171144.GA7349@localhost.localdomain> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2235 Lines: 68 On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 7:11 PM, Vegard Nossum wrote: > On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Andrei Popa wrote: >> >> I installed gnokii-0.6.22-r2 and gave the command "gnokii --identify" >> and the kernel oopsed: >> >> BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000458 >> IP: [] mutex_unlock+0x0/0xb >> *pde = 00000000 >> Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP >> >> Pid: 19043, comm: gnokii Not tainted (2.6.26-ineo7 #2) >> EIP: 0060:[] EFLAGS: 00010246 CPU: 0 >> EIP is at mutex_unlock+0x0/0xb > ... >> [] acm_tty_open+0x4c/0x214 > > This shouldn't be too hard; the code is trying to unlock the mutex > &acm->mutex even when "acm" is NULL. It seems that the label "err_out" > is otherwise unused, so it makes sense to move this one step further > down, so that it doesn't try to unlock the non-existent mutex. > > If the problem is reproducible, you could try the patch below! > > > Vegard > > PS: I actually think the code has some other problems too. Shouldn't > &acm->mutex be locked before we even inspect acm->dev? > > > Reported-by: Andrei Popa > Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum > > diff --git a/drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c b/drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c > index 63c3404..74d03a7 100644 > --- a/drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c > +++ b/drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c > @@ -525,8 +525,8 @@ static int acm_tty_open(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file *filp) > tasklet_schedule(&acm->urb_task); > > done: > -err_out: > mutex_unlock(&acm->mutex); > +err_out: > mutex_unlock(&open_mutex); > return rv; > > Hi, Latest -git seems to have the same problem, and this was about three weeks ago, so.. Ping? Vegard -- "The animistic metaphor of the bug that maliciously sneaked in while the programmer was not looking is intellectually dishonest as it disguises that the error is the programmer's own creation." -- E. W. Dijkstra, EWD1036 -- 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/