Re: ahci_host_activate NULL pointer (was Re: Linux 3.11-rc1)

From: Xiaotian Feng
Date: Mon Jul 15 2013 - 21:02:47 EST

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On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 3:44 PM, Alex Williamson
<alex.williamson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-07-15 at 13:23 -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
>> On Mon, 2013-07-15 at 14:46 -0400, Xiaotian Feng wrote:
>> > On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 1:38 AM, Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxxxxxx
>> > > wrote:
>> >
>> > > On Mon, 2013-07-15 at 10:49 -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
>> > > > On Sun, 2013-07-14 at 16:57 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> > > > > It's been two weeks, and the merge window has closed. If I missed
>> > > > > anything, holler, but I don't have anything pending that I am aware
>> > > > > of.
>> > > > >
>> > > > > This merge window was smaller in terms of number of commits than the
>> > > > > 3.10 merge window, but we actually have more new lines. Most of that
>> > > > > seems to be in staging - a full third of all changes by line-count is
>> > > > > staging, and merging in Lustre is the bulk of that. Let's see how that
>> > > > > all turns out, I have to say that we don't have a great track record
>> > > > > on merging filesystems through staging.
>> > > > >
>> > > > > Ignoring the lustre merge, I think this really was a somewhat calmer
>> > > > > merge window. We had a few trees with problems, and we have an
>> > > > > on-going debate about stable patches that was triggered largely thanks
>> > > > > to this merge window, so now we'll have something to discuss for the
>> > > > > kernel summit. But on the whole, I suspect we might be starting to see
>> > > > > the traditional summer slump (Australia notwithstanding).
>> > > > >
>> > > > > Despite being a bit smaller than the last merge window, it's not like
>> > > > > this was a _tiny_ one, and so as usual I'm only summarizing with the
>> > > > > normal -rc1 mergelog: and as usual the people credited here are *not*
>> > > > > the people who actually wrote the code (although in some cases that is
>> > > > > true), they are the people who I merged the code from.
>> > > > >
>> > > > > Hey, let's all start testing,
>> > > >
>> > > > Anyone else seeing this:
>> > > >
>> > > > [ 2.212548] ahci 0000:00:1f.2: AHCI 0001.0200 32 slots 6 ports 3 Gbps
>> > > 0x29 impl SATA mode
>> > > > [ 2.220732] ahci 0000:00:1f.2: flags: 64bit ncq sntf led clo pmp pio
>> > > slum part ccc sxs
>> > > > [ 2.228997] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at
>> > > 0000000000000508
>> > > > [ 2.236850] IP: [<ffffffff814084f7>] ahci_host_activate+0x87/0x140
>> > > > [ 2.243047] PGD 0
>> > > > [ 2.245077] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
>> > > > [ 2.248335] Modules linked in:
>> > > > [ 2.251405] CPU: 7 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.11.0-rc1+ #574
>> > > > [ 2.257929] Hardware name: LENOVO 4157CTO/LENOVO, BIOS 60KT41AUS
>> > > 01/04/2011
>> > > > [ 2.264880] task: ffff880371508000 ti: ffff880371510000 task.ti:
>> > > ffff880371510000
>> > > > [ 2.272353] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff814084f7>] [<ffffffff814084f7>]
>> > > ahci_host_activate+0x87/0x140
>> > > > [ 2.280969] RSP: 0018:ffff880371511b38 EFLAGS: 00010293
>> > > > [ 2.286273] RAX: ffff88036e724000 RBX: ffff88036e71c028 RCX:
>> > > ffffffff8140bce0
>> > > > [ 2.293397] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 000000000000002f RDI:
>> > > ffff88037122f098
>> > > > [ 2.300521] RBP: ffff880371511b68 R08: 0000000000000080 R09:
>> > > 0000000000000001
>> > > > [ 2.307645] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12:
>> > > 0000000000000001
>> > > > [ 2.314772] R13: 000000000000002e R14: 0000000000000000 R15:
>> > > ffff88037122f000
>> > > > [ 2.321896] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88037fdc0000(0000)
>> > > knlGS:0000000000000000
>> > > > [ 2.329973] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
>> > > > [ 2.335711] CR2: 0000000000000508 CR3: 0000000001c0b000 CR4:
>> > > 00000000000007e0
>> > > > [ 2.342835] Stack:
>> > > > [ 2.344848] ffff88036e720000 ffff88037122f000 0000000000000005
>> > > ffff88037122f098
>> > > > [ 2.352301] ffff88036e734000 ffff88036e71c028 ffff880371511c38
>> > > ffffffff81408eae
>> > > > [ 2.359756] ffff880300000000 ffff88037122f098 ffff8803710be7a8
>> > > ffff880300000010
>> > > > [ 2.367210] Call Trace:
>> > > > [ 2.369655] [<ffffffff81408eae>] ahci_init_one+0x8fe/0xaa0
>> > > > [ 2.375221] [<ffffffff816141cf>] ?
>> > > _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x3f/0x70
>> > > > [ 2.382006] [<ffffffff8132529b>] local_pci_probe+0x4b/0x80
>> > > > [ 2.387571] [<ffffffff81325501>] pci_device_probe+0x111/0x120
>> > > > [ 2.393405] [<ffffffff813bf43b>] driver_probe_device+0x8b/0x390
>> > > > [ 2.399411] [<ffffffff813bf7eb>] __driver_attach+0xab/0xb0
>> > > > [ 2.404984] [<ffffffff813bf740>] ? driver_probe_device+0x390/0x390
>> > > > [ 2.411241] [<ffffffff813bd2cd>] bus_for_each_dev+0x5d/0xa0
>> > > > [ 2.416893] [<ffffffff813bed7e>] driver_attach+0x1e/0x20
>> > > > [ 2.422284] [<ffffffff813be917>] bus_add_driver+0x117/0x290
>> > > > [ 2.427937] [<ffffffff81d54755>] ? libata_transport_init+0x5e/0x5e
>> > > > [ 2.434201] [<ffffffff813bfc8a>] driver_register+0x7a/0x170
>> > > > [ 2.439853] [<ffffffff81d54755>] ? libata_transport_init+0x5e/0x5e
>> > > > [ 2.446110] [<ffffffff81324ce4>] __pci_register_driver+0x64/0x70
>> > > > [ 2.452196] [<ffffffff81d5476e>] ahci_pci_driver_init+0x19/0x1b
>> > > > [ 2.458196] [<ffffffff810002fa>] do_one_initcall+0xfa/0x1b0
>> > > > [ 2.463853] [<ffffffff8107b100>] ? parse_args+0x1f0/0x450
>> > > > [ 2.469332] [<ffffffff81d13ff8>] kernel_init_freeable+0x154/0x1e3
>> > > > [ 2.475510] [<ffffffff81d1383f>] ? do_early_param+0x8c/0x8c
>> > > > [ 2.481163] [<ffffffff81602140>] ? rest_init+0xe0/0xe0
>> > > > [ 2.486390] [<ffffffff8160214e>] kernel_init+0xe/0xf0
>> > > > [ 2.491530] [<ffffffff8161cf5c>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
>> > > > [ 2.496928] [<ffffffff81602140>] ? rest_init+0xe0/0xe0
>> > > > [ 2.502144] Code: 88 00 00 00 49 63 c4 48 8b 7b 38 43 8d 34 2c 48 8b
>> > > 84 c3 00 01 00 00 41 b8 80 00 00 00 48 c7 c1 e0 bc 40 81 48 8b 90 78 37 00
>> > > 00 <4c> 8b 8a 08 05 00 00 48 89 04 24 48 c7 c2 90 be 40 81 e8 f2 b7
>> > > > [ 2.522097] RIP [<ffffffff814084f7>] ahci_host_activate+0x87/0x140
>> > > > [ 2.528372] RSP <ffff880371511b38>
>> > > > [ 2.531858] CR2: 0000000000000508
>> > > > [ 2.535184] ---[ end trace 66267c9b7b73f56b ]---
>> > > > [ 2.539808] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
>> > > exitcode=0x00000009
>> > > >
>> > >
>> > > Bisected to:
>> > >
>> > > commit b29900e62598cecd519c9ab2b8e4d03f8ebf702d
>> > > Author: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> > > Date: Wed May 22 08:53:48 2013 +0900
>> > >
>> > > AHCI: Make distinct names for ports in /proc/interrupts
>> > >
>> > > Currently all interrupts assigned to AHCI ports show up in
>> > > '/proc/interrupts' as 'ahci'. This fix adds port numbers as
>> > > suffixes and hence makes the descriptions distinct.
>> > >
>> > > Reported-by: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>
>> > > Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> > > Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> > >
>> > >
>> > Could you please try this patch?
>> >
>> > diff --git a/drivers/ata/libahci.c b/drivers/ata/libahci.c
>> > index acfd0f7..e4b7176 100644
>> > --- a/drivers/ata/libahci.c
>> > +++ b/drivers/ata/libahci.c
>> > @@ -2234,7 +2234,7 @@ static int ahci_port_start(struct ata_port *ap)
>> > if (!pp)
>> > return -ENOMEM;
>> >
>> > - if (ap->host->n_ports > 1) {
>> > + if (ap->host->n_ports > 0) {
>> > pp->irq_desc = devm_kzalloc(dev, 8, GFP_KERNEL);
>> > if (!pp->irq_desc) {
>> > devm_kfree(dev, pp);
>> >
>>
>> It does not help. Thanks,
>
> Some further debugging, nr_ports is 6. ahci_port_start gets called for
> ap->port_no 0, 3 and 5. The loop in ahci_host_activate dies on i = 1
> because ->private_data is null. Thanks,
>

I think following patch can fix this panic. For ahci ports, when the
port is dummy port, its private_data will be NULL, as dummy_port_ops
doesn't support ->port_start. Could you please try this?

drivers/ata/ahci.c | 8 +++++++-
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/ata/ahci.c b/drivers/ata/ahci.c
index 5064f3e..26e07ba 100644
--- a/drivers/ata/ahci.c
+++ b/drivers/ata/ahci.c
@@ -1147,10 +1147,16 @@ int ahci_host_activate(struct ata_host *host,
int irq, unsigned int n_msis)

for (i = 0; i < host->n_ports; i++) {
struct ahci_port_priv *pp = host->ports[i]->private_data;
+ const char *desc;
+
+ if (ata_port_is_dummy(host->ports[i]))
+ desc = dev_driver_string(host->dev);
+ else
+ desc = pp->irq_desc;

rc = devm_request_threaded_irq(host->dev,
irq + i, ahci_hw_interrupt, ahci_thread_fn, IRQF_SHARED,
- pp->irq_desc, host->ports[i]);
+ desc, host->ports[i]);
if (rc)
goto out_free_irqs;
}

> Alex
>
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