Re: [PATCH v6] amba: Remove deferred device addition

From: Guenter Roeck
Date: Tue Aug 09 2022 - 06:31:01 EST


Hi,

On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 11:19:35AM -0700, Saravana Kannan wrote:
> The uevents generated for an amba device need PID and CID information
> that's available only when the amba device is powered on, clocked and
> out of reset. So, if those resources aren't available, the information
> can't be read to generate the uevents. To workaround this requirement,
> if the resources weren't available, the device addition was deferred and
> retried periodically.
>
...

This patch results in a large number of crashes in various qemu
emulations. Crash and bisect logs below. Reverting this patch
fixes the problem.

Additional information: The decoded stack trace suggests that the
"id" parameter of pl011_probe() may be NULL.

Guenter

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Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000008
[00000008] *pgd=00000000
Internal error: Oops: 5 [#1] ARM
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper Not tainted 5.19.0+ #1
Hardware name: ARM-Versatile (Device Tree Support)
PC is at pl011_probe+0x40/0x110
LR is at amba_probe+0x10c/0x19c
pc : [<c059847c>] lr : [<c055ac9c>] psr: 60000153
sp : c8811e00 ip : 00000000 fp : c1959ef8
r10: c7ef55f8 r9 : fffffdfb r8 : c0d77af8
r7 : c1959c00 r6 : c1959c00 r5 : 00000000 r4 : 00000003
r3 : c14191a4 r2 : 00000dc0 r1 : 00000198 r0 : c1959c00
Flags: nZCv IRQs on FIQs off Mode SVC_32 ISA ARM Segment none
Control: 00093177 Table: 00004000 DAC: 00000053
Register r0 information: slab kmalloc-1k start c1959c00 pointer offset 0 size 1024
Register r1 information: non-paged memory
Register r2 information: non-paged memory
Register r3 information: non-slab/vmalloc memory
Register r4 information: non-paged memory
Register r5 information: NULL pointer
Register r6 information: slab kmalloc-1k start c1959c00 pointer offset 0 size 1024
Register r7 information: slab kmalloc-1k start c1959c00 pointer offset 0 size 1024
Register r8 information: non-slab/vmalloc memory
Register r9 information: non-paged memory
Register r10 information: non-slab/vmalloc memory
Register r11 information: slab kmalloc-1k start c1959c00 pointer offset 760 size 1024
Register r12 information: NULL pointer
Process swapper (pid: 1, stack limit = 0x(ptrval))
Stack: (0xc8811e00 to 0xc8812000)
1e00: 60000153 00000009 c1959c00 00000000 c0d77af8 c055ac9c c055ab90 c1959c00
1e20: 00000000 c0d77af8 00000000 c1898d40 c180e158 c0cd8848 00000000 c05fbfe4
1e40: c1959c00 c0d77af8 c1959c00 00000000 c1898d40 c05fc250 c14195c4 60000153
1e60: c1959c00 c05fc2f8 c180e158 c0cd8848 00000000 00000000 c1959c00 c0d77af8
1e80: c0d72b98 c05fc704 00000000 c0d77af8 c05fc694 c0d72b98 c1898d40 c05fa0b4
1ea0: 00000000 c19458ac c1957eb4 c0cfb86c c0d77af8 c180e100 00000000 c05fb2ac
1ec0: c0bc2310 c0dad240 c1898d40 c0d77af8 c0dad240 c1898d40 00000000 c1898d40
1ee0: c0dbb000 c05fd258 c0cc55c4 c0dad240 c1898d40 c000a8b0 00000000 00000000
1f00: c18dbe47 c0c6cc00 00000137 c00488a8 c0c6b418 00000000 c0dad240 c0953980
1f20: c1898d40 00000003 c0dad240 c18dbe00 c0cd8864 c0c6b418 c0dbb000 c0cd8848
1f40: 00000000 c0cfb86c c0cf16a4 00000004 c18dbe00 c0cd8868 c0c6b418 c0ca5230
1f60: 00000003 00000003 00000000 c0ca4400 00000000 00000137 00000000 00000000
1f80: c0953c48 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 c0953c58
1fa0: 00000000 c0953c48 00000000 c00084f8 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
1fc0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
1fe0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000013 00000000 00000000 00000000
pl011_probe from amba_probe+0x10c/0x19c
amba_probe from really_probe+0xb4/0x2a0
really_probe from __driver_probe_device+0x80/0xe4
__driver_probe_device from driver_probe_device+0x44/0x108
driver_probe_device from __driver_attach+0x70/0x110
__driver_attach from bus_for_each_dev+0x74/0xc0
bus_for_each_dev from bus_add_driver+0x154/0x1e8
bus_add_driver from driver_register+0x74/0x10c
driver_register from do_one_initcall+0x8c/0x2fc
do_one_initcall from kernel_init_freeable+0x190/0x220
kernel_init_freeable from kernel_init+0x10/0x108
kernel_init from ret_from_fork+0x14/0x3c
Exception stack(0xc8811fb0 to 0xc8811ff8)
1fa0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
1fc0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
1fe0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000013 00000000
Code: e8bd81f0 e3a02d37 e3a01f66 e1a00007 (e59c8008)
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x0000000b
Reboot failed -- System halted
qemu-system-arm: terminating on signal 15 from pid 952897 (/bin/bash)

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# bad: [f2d3b9a46e0ed4742abaa00506b18bb2ca9179d8] ARM: 9220/1: amba: Remove deferred device addition
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# first bad commit: [f2d3b9a46e0ed4742abaa00506b18bb2ca9179d8] ARM: 9220/1: amba: Remove deferred device addition