RE: [PATCH] mmc,sdio: Fix the panic due to devname NULL whencalling pm_runtime_set_active()

[Liu, Chuansheng]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ohad Ben-Cohen [mailto:ohad@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2012 3:33 AM
> To: Liu, Chuansheng
> Cc: Chris Ball; linux-mmc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] mmc,sdio: Fix the panic due to devname NULL when
> calling pm_runtime_set_active()
> 
> Hi Liu,
> 
> On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Chuansheng Liu
> <chuansheng.liu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > So when calling pm_runtime_set_active(), it will hit the strlen(devname==0)
> > which trigger the panic.
> 
> Can you please point to the exact line of code that triggers this panic ?
    The call trace is as below:
    mmc_rescan
    -> mmc_rescan_try_freq
    -> mmc_attach_sdio
    -> pm_runtime_set_active
    -> __pm_runtime_set_status
    -> __update_runtime_status
    -> trace_runtime_pm_status
      This function is corresponding to the below code in trace/events/power.h:
    TRACE_EVENT(runtime_pm_status,
    
        TP_PROTO(struct device *dev, int status),
    
        TP_ARGS(dev, status),
    
        TP_STRUCT__entry(
                __string(devname, dev_name(dev))

Rechecked these codes, the trace event runtime_pm_status is added newly, this is different with vanilla
Linux. But it is just a new trace event.

So I still think that calling pm_runtime_set_active is not safe when dev_name is NULL.
If you agree this point, I can refine the code that moving "init the dev_name " from mmc_add_card
to mmc_sdio_init_card. Thanks.

> 
> > Here before calling pm_runtime_set_active(), set the dev name, although
> > it is duplicated with mmc_add_card(), but it do not break the original
> > design(commit 81968561b).
> 
> Normally we'd like to avoid such a solution, so let's first make sure
> we understand the problem.
> 
> Have you tried thinking how come this shows up only now - has any of
> the relevant code been changed lately ? Are you using a vanilla Linux
> tree ?
> 
> Thanks,
> Ohad.
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