Re: [BUG bisected]: apei_hest_parse explosion

[Yinghai Lu]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 4:15 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Friday, February 22, 2013 12:56:01 AM Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> Just booted linus head on one of my old kvm based testing systems and
>> got the following splat:
>>
>> [    0.531910] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000024
>> [    0.532173] IP: [<ffffffff812f1bd2>] apei_hest_parse+0xd2/0xf0
>> [    0.532173] PGD 0
>> [    0.532173] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
>> [    0.532173] Modules linked in:
>> [    0.532173] CPU 3
>> [    0.532173] Pid: 1, comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.8.0+ #195 Bochs Bochs
>> [    0.532173] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff812f1bd2>]  [<ffffffff812f1bd2>] apei_hest_parse+0xd2/0xf0
>> [    0.532173] RSP: 0000:ffff88021685be78  EFLAGS: 00010206
>> [    0.532173] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
>> [    0.532173] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000028
>> [    0.532173] RBP: ffff88021685be98 R08: 00000000804efb06 R09: 0000000000000000
>> [    0.532173] R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffffff81af3d40
>> [    0.532173] R13: ffffffff812bcb23 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
>> [    0.532173] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88021fcc0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
>> [    0.532173] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
>> [    0.532173] CR2: 0000000000000024 CR3: 0000000001a0c000 CR4: 00000000000406a0
>> [    0.532173] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
>> [    0.532173] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
>> [    0.532173] Process swapper/0 (pid: 1, threadinfo ffff88021685a000, task ffff8802168c0000)
>> [    0.532173] Stack:
>> [    0.532173]  00000000fffffffa ffffffff81af3d40 0000000000000000 000000001fb3f55a
>> [    0.532173]  ffff88021685bea8 ffffffff812bcbe4 ffff88021685bec8 ffffffff81af3d5c
>> [    0.532173]  0000000000000030 0000000000000030 ffff88021685bef8 ffffffff8100023b
>> [    0.532173] Call Trace:
>> [    0.532173]  [<ffffffff81af3d40>] ? pcie_portdrv_init+0x7a/0x7a
>> [    0.532173]  [<ffffffff812bcbe4>] aer_acpi_firmware_first+0x20/0x30
>> [    0.532173]  [<ffffffff81af3d5c>] aer_service_init+0x1c/0x35
>> [    0.532173]  [<ffffffff8100023b>] do_one_initcall+0x57/0x13c
>> [    0.532173]  [<ffffffff81ad2d39>] kernel_init_freeable+0x142/0x1d1
>> [    0.532173]  [<ffffffff81ad254f>] ? loglevel+0x31/0x31
>> [    0.532173]  [<ffffffff815a8cef>] ? rest_init+0xc3/0xc3
>> [    0.532173]  [<ffffffff815a8cfd>] kernel_init+0xe/0xd6
>> [    0.532173]  [<ffffffff815bc73c>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
>> [    0.532173]  [<ffffffff815a8cef>] ? rest_init+0xc3/0xc3
>> [    0.532173] Code: 14 0f b7 77 02 31 c0 48 c7 c7 65 c1 83 81 e8 35 1a 2c 00 eb 23 4c 89 f6 41 ff d5 85 c0 75 1e 4c 89 e7 ff c3 48 8b 05 a6 5b 7c 00 <3b> 58 24 0f 82 5a ff ff ff 31 c0 eb 05 b8 ea ff ff ff 5b 41 5c
>>
>> git bisect identified the following commit:
>>
>> commit 92ef2a25c763338905dce8344a0584606f842920
>> Author: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Date:   Fri Dec 21 00:36:40 2012 +0100
>>
>>     ACPI: Change the ordering of PCI root bridge driver registrarion
>>
>> A revert is impossible w/o major surgery, so I'm going to bed and let
>> the involved folks think about it.
>
> Can you please post a dmesg boot log from v3.8 on the same system?
>

looks at the code flow, acpi_hest_init() is called early correctly.

later aer_acpi_firmware_first() should not hit hest_tab is NULL, but
hest_disable is not set.

could be some data corruption.. near hest_disable or hest_tab.

Thanks

Yinghai
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