Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759996AbZCaW4s (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:56:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1763994AbZCaWxO (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:53:14 -0400 Received: from mail.vyatta.com ([76.74.103.46]:35987 "EHLO mail.vyatta.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1763987AbZCaWxM (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:53:12 -0400 Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:53:09 -0700 From: Stephen Hemminger To: Anton Vorontsov Cc: Jesse Barnes , linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] PCI: Fix oops in pci_vpd_truncate Message-ID: <20090331155309.5d39e6a8@nehalam> In-Reply-To: <20090331222341.GA16479@oksana.dev.rtsoft.ru> References: <20090331222341.GA16479@oksana.dev.rtsoft.ru> Organization: Vyatta X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.6.1 (GTK+ 2.16.0; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2115 Lines: 49 On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 02:23:41 +0400 Anton Vorontsov wrote: > pci_vpd_truncate() should check for dev->vpd->attr, otherwise > this might happen: > > sky2 driver version 1.22 > Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x0000000c > Faulting instruction address: 0xc01836fc > Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1] > [...] > NIP [c01836fc] pci_vpd_truncate+0x38/0x40 > LR [c029be18] sky2_probe+0x14c/0x518 > Call Trace: > [ef82bde0] [c029bda4] sky2_probe+0xd8/0x518 (unreliable) > [ef82be20] [c018a11c] local_pci_probe+0x24/0x34 > [ef82be30] [c018a14c] pci_call_probe+0x20/0x30 > [ef82be50] [c018a330] __pci_device_probe+0x64/0x78 > [ef82be60] [c018a44c] pci_device_probe+0x30/0x58 > [ef82be80] [c01aa270] really_probe+0x78/0x1a0 > [ef82bea0] [c01aa460] __driver_attach+0xa4/0xa8 > [ef82bec0] [c01a96ac] bus_for_each_dev+0x60/0x9c > [ef82bef0] [c01aa0b4] driver_attach+0x24/0x34 > [ef82bf00] [c01a9e08] bus_add_driver+0x12c/0x1cc > [ef82bf20] [c01aa87c] driver_register+0x6c/0x110 > [ef82bf30] [c018a770] __pci_register_driver+0x4c/0x9c > [ef82bf50] [c03782c8] sky2_init_module+0x30/0x40 > [ef82bf60] [c0001dbc] do_one_initcall+0x34/0x1a0 > [ef82bfd0] [c0362240] do_initcalls+0x38/0x58 > > This happens with CONFIG_SKY2=y, and "ip=on" kernel command line, so > pci_vpd_truncate() is called before late_initcall(pci_sysfs_init), > therefore ->attr isn't yet initialized. > > Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov If you are doing this you will never get sky2 vpd pci access, but that is not a big loss. I worry that other thing could break if devices are getting initialized before sysfs. Drivers that create sysfs entries (like the 10G drivers) could also break? But this is okay as a provisional step, the sysfs startup order needs to be fixed. Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger -- 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/