Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753896AbZD2G6b (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Apr 2009 02:58:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751843AbZD2G6U (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Apr 2009 02:58:20 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:37891 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750892AbZD2G6T (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Apr 2009 02:58:19 -0400 Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 23:55:51 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Daniel Mack Cc: LKML , linux-usb@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: BUG: NULL pointer dereference in try_to_del_timer_sync() Message-Id: <20090428235551.862ee0d1.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20090428081416.GA22269@buzzloop.caiaq.de> References: <20090428081416.GA22269@buzzloop.caiaq.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.8 (GTK+ 2.12.5; x86_64-redhat-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: 3449 Lines: 61 (cc linux-usb) On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:14:16 +0200 Daniel Mack wrote: > This happened more than once in the last 12h on my desktop machine with > the kernel snapshot as of ce8a7424d23a36f043 (yesterday). It's not > reproducible, otherwise I would have bisected it. > > Daniel > > > [10982.240372] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000090 > [10982.240383] IP: [] lock_timer_base+0xe/0x3e > [10982.240396] *pde = 00000000 > [10982.240400] Oops: 0000 [#2] PREEMPT SMP > [10982.240405] last sysfs file: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.1/usb1/1-3/idProduct > [10982.240411] Modules linked in: cbc nvidia(P) ppdev lp nfsd exportfs nfs lockd nfs_acl auth_rpcgss sunrpc dm_crypt dm_mod aes_generic cryptoloop loop snd_usb_caiaq snd_rawmidi pl2303 snd_pcm ftdi_sio usbserial snd_timer snd_page_alloc psmouse pcspkr i2c_nforce2 via_rhine mii forcedeth parport_pc thermal button [last unloaded: nvidia] > [10982.240449] > [10982.240455] Pid: 22809, comm: cu Tainted: P D (2.6.30-rc3 #1) MS-7260 > [10982.240458] EIP: 0060:[] EFLAGS: 00210286 CPU: 1 > [10982.240462] EIP is at lock_timer_base+0xe/0x3e > [10982.240465] EAX: 0000007c EBX: 0000007c ECX: c022f4b9 EDX: ea10fe5c > [10982.240468] ESI: ffffffff EDI: 0000007c EBP: ea10fe54 ESP: ea10fe44 > [10982.240471] DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0033 SS: 0068 > [10982.240475] Process cu (pid: 22809, ti=ea10e000 task=ea779270 task.ti=ea10e000) > [10982.240477] Stack: > [10982.240479] ea10fe5c 0000007c ffffffff 0000007c ea10fe68 c022f0b6 00200246 00000094 > [10982.240488] 00200246 ea10fe7c c022f515 000004b2 f66b4c00 00000000 ea10fe94 f86930c6 > [10982.240497] 22222222 f869c310 f66b4c00 ea0bf000 ea10feb8 f85c0a32 edc52f00 f66b4ce4 > [10982.240507] Call Trace: > [10982.240510] [] ? try_to_del_timer_sync+0x15/0x4f > [10982.240516] [] ? del_timer_sync+0x5c/0x6c > [10982.240521] [] ? ftdi_close+0xc5/0xe9 [ftdi_sio] > [10982.240540] [] ? serial_close+0x86/0x12d [usbserial] > [10982.240553] [] ? tty_release_dev+0x176/0x3fa > [10982.240561] [] ? lock_hrtimer_base+0x18/0x33 > [10982.240568] [] ? trace_hardirqs_off+0xb/0xd > [10982.240576] [] ? _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x42/0x58 > [10982.240582] [] ? vfs_ioctl+0x22/0x69 > [10982.240589] [] ? do_vfs_ioctl+0x452/0x48b > [10982.240594] [] ? tty_release+0x12/0x1c > [10982.240598] [] ? __fput+0xca/0x175 > [10982.240604] [] ? fput+0x19/0x1b > [10982.240608] [] ? filp_close+0x51/0x5b > [10982.240612] [] ? sys_close+0x6a/0xa4 > [10982.240616] [] ? sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x36 > [10982.240623] Code: 40 f7 d0 83 e0 f2 5b c9 c3 55 31 c9 31 d2 64 a1 00 f0 73 c0 89 e5 e8 05 6f 00 00 c9 c3 55 89 e5 57 89 c7 56 53 83 ec 04 89 55 f0 <8b> 5f 14 89 de 83 e6 fe 74 22 89 f0 e8 8b 11 2f 00 8b 55 f0 89 > [10982.240675] EIP: [] lock_timer_base+0xe/0x3e SS:ESP 0068:ea10fe44 > [10982.240681] CR2: 0000000000000090 > [10982.240685] ---[ end trace ca8d2f0f6a72aeeb ]--- usb-serial went splat. Do you think that this is a post-2.6.29 regression? Thanks. -- 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/