Re: 2.6.31-rc3 cpufreq bug (null pointer dereference)

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

(cc cpufreq@vger.kernel.org)

On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:07:49 +0200 Christophe Lermytte <christophe.lermytte@thomson.net> wrote:

> Today, I tried to change the governor to conservative using the GNOME
> cpufreqd applet. The applet subsequently hangs and the following appears
> in the kernel traces: 
> 
> [ 3067.249054] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at
> 00000020
> [ 3067.249062] IP: [<c1302d23>] dbs_cpufreq_notifier+0x17/0x2b
> [ 3067.249074] *pde = 00000000 
> [ 3067.249078] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP 
> [ 3067.249083] last sysfs
> file: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor
> [ 3067.249087] Modules linked in: cdc_wdm cdc_acm
> [ 3067.249093] 
> [ 3067.249098] Pid: 1346, comm: kondemand/1 Not tainted (2.6.31-rc3 #2)
> Latitude D630                   
> [ 3067.249103] EIP: 0060:[<c1302d23>] EFLAGS: 00010286 CPU: 1
> [ 3067.249108] EIP is at dbs_cpufreq_notifier+0x17/0x2b
> [ 3067.249112] EAX: 00000000 EBX: f6959f00 ECX: 00000000 EDX: c278c300
> [ 3067.249116] ESI: fffffffe EDI: 00000000 EBP: 00000000 ESP: f6959e78
> [ 3067.249120]  DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0000 SS: 0068
> [ 3067.249124] Process kondemand/1 (pid: 1346, ti=f6958000 task=f69020a0
> task.ti=f6958000)
> [ 3067.249128] Stack:
> [ 3067.249130]  c161ba54 c1427067 f6959f00 00000000 c176d000 f6959f00
> c176cfe4 00000000
> [ 3067.249139] <0> c103a57e ffffffff 00000000 00000000 00000001 f64de590
> f8416980 f6959f00
> [ 3067.249149] <0> c103a59c ffffffff 00000000 c100f8b0 f6bcf240 ffffffea
> 00000003 00000000
> [ 3067.249160] Call Trace:
> [ 3067.249166]  [<c1427067>] ? notifier_call_chain+0x2a/0x47
> [ 3067.249175]  [<c103a57e>] ? __srcu_notifier_call_chain+0x32/0x47
> [ 3067.249181]  [<c103a59c>] ? srcu_notifier_call_chain+0x9/0xc
> [ 3067.249193]  [<c100f8b0>] ? acpi_cpufreq_target+0x1a7/0x2b1
> [ 3067.249197]  [<c100f5ba>] ? get_measured_perf+0x1f/0x140
> [ 3067.249201]  [<c103db6d>] ? getnstimeofday+0x4d/0xd0
> [ 3067.249205]  [<c1300802>] ? cpufreq_register_driver+0xb1/0x15b
> [ 3067.249209]  [<c100f709>] ? acpi_cpufreq_target+0x0/0x2b1
> [ 3067.249213]  [<c13008f5>] ? __cpufreq_driver_target+0x49/0x55
> [ 3067.249217]  [<c13029a0>] ? do_dbs_timer+0x262/0x2b8
> [ 3067.249222]  [<c1033b50>] ? worker_thread+0x137/0x1b3
> [ 3067.249226]  [<c130273e>] ? do_dbs_timer+0x0/0x2b8
> [ 3067.249229]  [<c1037042>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2d
> [ 3067.249233]  [<c1033a19>] ? worker_thread+0x0/0x1b3
> [ 3067.249236]  [<c1036da6>] ? kthread+0x69/0x6e
> [ 3067.249240]  [<c1036d3d>] ? kthread+0x0/0x6e
> [ 3067.249244]  [<c100334f>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
> [ 3067.249246] Code: c7 44 24 18 ea ff ff ff 8b 44 24 18 83 c4 20 5b 5e
> 5f 5d c3 53 8b 01 ba 00 83 6c c1 89 cb 03 14 85 6c b9 66 c1 8b 4a 18 8b
> 42 60 <3b> 41 20 77 05 3b 41 1c 73 06 8b 43 08 89 42 60 31 c0 5b c3 53 
> [ 3067.249282] EIP: [<c1302d23>] dbs_cpufreq_notifier+0x17/0x2b SS:ESP
> 0068:f6959e78
> [ 3067.249287] CR2: 0000000000000020
> [ 3067.249296] ---[ end trace 5cb870966b6883a7 ]---
> 

I assume that this is repeatable and that 2.6.30 was OK?

Thanks.