Re: EHCI hotplug kernel crash in kernel 3.14 and 3.13

From: Alan Stern
Date: Mon Apr 14 2014 - 11:11:21 EST


On Sun, 13 Apr 2014, Stefani Seibold wrote:

> A hot plug of an USB 2.0 EHCI controller cardbus card will result in a
> kernel crash. This is the kernel log of a vanilla 3.14 x86_64 kernel. I
> will attach my kernel config.

> [ 70.419755] ehci-pci 0000:04:00.2: EHCI Host Controller
> [ 70.419874] ehci-pci 0000:04:00.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 9
> [ 70.419980] ehci-pci 0000:04:00.2: irq 19, io mem 0xf1402000
> [ 70.422796] ohci_hcd: USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver
> [ 70.424894] ohci-pci: OHCI PCI platform driver
> [ 70.425072] ehci-pci 0000:04:00.2: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 0.95
> [ 70.425132] usb usb9: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0002
> [ 70.425135] usb usb9: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1
> [ 70.425138] usb usb9: Product: EHCI Host Controller
> [ 70.425141] usb usb9: Manufacturer: Linux 3.14.0 ehci_hcd
> [ 70.425144] usb usb9: SerialNumber: 0000:04:00.2
> [ 70.425332] hub 9-0:1.0: USB hub found
> [ 70.425344] hub 9-0:1.0: 5 ports detected
> [ 70.425556] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000040
> [ 70.425560] IP: [<ffffffff814947cc>] usb_set_configuration+0x1c/0x7d0
> [ 70.425568] PGD 30d571067 PUD 30d570067 PMD 0
> [ 70.425572] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
> [ 70.425576] Modules linked in: ohci_pci(+) ohci_hcd rfcomm btusb ppdev intel_agp intel_gtt 8250 video parport_pc parport serial_core nvidia(PO) drm agpgart
> [ 70.425604] CPU: 3 PID: 83 Comm: pccardd Tainted: P O 3.14.0 #1
> [ 70.425607] Hardware name: Dell Inc. Precision M6400 /0G841G, BIOS A13 06/05/2013
> [ 70.425609] task: ffff88030eefe150 ti: ffff88030ef86000 task.ti: ffff88030ef86000
> [ 70.425611] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff814947cc>] [<ffffffff814947cc>] usb_set_configuration+0x1c/0x7d0
> [ 70.425615] RSP: 0018:ffff88030ef87ba0 EFLAGS: 00010286
> [ 70.425617] RAX: ffff88030c7ce800 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffff88030ea57000
> [ 70.425619] RDX: ffff88030dcb6800 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: 0000000000000000
> [ 70.425620] RBP: ffff88030ef87c38 R08: ffff88030dfa6910 R09: 0000000000000000
> [ 70.425622] R10: 0000000000004e2e R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000
> [ 70.425624] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffffffff814a0b80 R15: ffff88030c7ce800
> [ 70.425626] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88031fd80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> [ 70.425628] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
> [ 70.425630] CR2: 0000000000000040 CR3: 000000030c714000 CR4: 00000000000407e0
> [ 70.425631] Stack:
> [ 70.425632] ffffffff81340110 ffffffff814a0b80 ffff88030ef87bc8 ffffffff817b3858
> [ 70.425636] ffff88030dcb6898 ffff88030ef87c00 ffffffff813d6daf ffff88030f429000
> [ 70.425640] 000000010ef87bf0 ffffffff813d4737 ffff88030ef87c00 ffffffff8133f19a
> [ 70.425644] Call Trace:
> [ 70.425650] [<ffffffff81340110>] ? pci_do_find_bus+0x70/0x70
> [ 70.425653] [<ffffffff814a0b80>] ? hcd_pci_suspend_noirq+0xa0/0xa0
> [ 70.425659] [<ffffffff817b3858>] ? klist_iter_exit+0x18/0x30
> [ 70.425663] [<ffffffff813d6daf>] ? bus_find_device+0x7f/0xb0
> [ 70.425666] [<ffffffff813d4737>] ? put_device+0x17/0x20
> [ 70.425669] [<ffffffff8133f19a>] ? pci_dev_put+0x1a/0x20
> [ 70.425672] [<ffffffff81340361>] ? pci_get_dev_by_id+0x61/0x90
> [ 70.425675] [<ffffffff814a0b80>] ? hcd_pci_suspend_noirq+0xa0/0xa0
> [ 70.425679] [<ffffffff814a0bcb>] ehci_post_add+0x4b/0x60
> [ 70.425682] [<ffffffff814a0070>] for_each_companion+0x80/0xa0
> [ 70.425685] [<ffffffff814a0504>] usb_hcd_pci_probe+0x474/0x4e0

I think I see the problem; the driver data for the companion controller
gets set before we expect it. The patch below should help, by adding a
check to see that the companion's root hub has been allocated.

Alan Stern



Index: usb-3.14/drivers/usb/core/hcd-pci.c
===================================================================
--- usb-3.14.orig/drivers/usb/core/hcd-pci.c
+++ usb-3.14/drivers/usb/core/hcd-pci.c
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ static void for_each_companion(struct pc
PCI_SLOT(companion->devfn) != slot)
continue;
companion_hcd = pci_get_drvdata(companion);
- if (!companion_hcd)
+ if (!companion_hcd || !companion_hcd->self.root_hub)
continue;
fn(pdev, hcd, companion, companion_hcd);
}

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