Re: Oops in evdev_disconnect for kernel 2.6.23.12

[Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>]

On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 08:26:05PM +0100, Berthold Cogel wrote:

> Jan  1 17:34:39 wonderland kernel: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging 
> request at virtual address 00100100

LIST_POISON1

> Jan  1 17:34:39 wonderland kernel: EIP is at evdev_disconnect+0x65/0x9e 

and by the look of code, it's a bit before the call of something that gets
0x20006 as one of its arguments.  Which, by the look of evdev.s, gets
passed only to kill_fasync().  So it's POLL_HUP, so this code could be
these days:
	spin_lock(&evdev->client_lock);
	list_for_each_entry(client, &evdev->client_list, node)
		kill_fasync(&client->fasync, SIGIO, POLL_HUP);
	spin_unlock(&evdev->client_lock);
in evdev_hangup()
prior to commit 6addb1d6de1968b84852f54561cc9a999909b5a9:
		list_for_each_entry(client, &evdev->client_list, node)
			kill_fasync(&client->fasync, SIGIO, POLL_HUP);
in evdev_disconnect()


> I'm using Debian stable/testing/unstable with homemade kernel 2.6.23.12 
> (patched with tuxonice-3.0-rc3-for-2.6.23.9).

... and seeing that this changeset postdates 2.6.23 *and* adds locking to
the lists we are traversing in either variant, I'd bet that the kernel you
have does *NOT* have the changeset in question, that you have list corruption
from race and that your oops is list_for_each_entry() trying to walk
forward from entry that just had list_del() poisoning its ->next.

There are only 4 changesets between 2.6.23 and this one affecting drivers/input
and only
8006479c9b75fb6594a7b746af3d7f1fbb68f18f and
6addb1d6de1968b84852f54561cc9a999909b5a9
appear to be relevant.  Apply to your kernel and see if it helps...