Re: [Linux-uvc-devel] [BUG] NULL pointer dereference caused by uvcvideo stress test

Alan Jenkins
2008-10-15T16:42:57Z

Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> Hi Alan,
>
> On Friday 26 September 2008, Alan Jenkins wrote:
>
>> This is is on v2.6.27-rc6. I originally saw it on todays -tip tree.
>>
>> # while true; do modprobe uvcvideo; modprobe -r uvcvideo; done
>>
>> After a few tens of cycles, modprobe gets stuck in "D" state, and the
>> following backtrace appears:
>>
>
> [snip]
>
> I can't reproduce the issue here on 2.6.27. Could you please test that
> version ?
>

Sure... still happens.

If you look at the trace, it happens as "hald-probe-video" opens the
video device. This is from Ubuntu 8.04. Possibly it's significant that
I use the camera first, to make sure it works (I use Kopete, the
settings dialogue includes a video test).

[ 267.056655] input: UVC Camera (eb1a:2761) as /class/input/input59
[ 267.069990] usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo
[ 267.069990] USB Video Class driver (v0.1.0)
[ 267.299989] usbcore: deregistering interface driver uvcvideo
[ 267.336656] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
[ 267.349981] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device <unnamed> (eb1a:2761)
[ 267.353317] input: UVC Camera (eb1a:2761) as /class/input/input60
[ 267.363324] usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo
[ 267.363324] USB Video Class driver (v0.1.0)
[ 267.373325] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at
00000030
[ 267.373325] IP: [<e03e13ec>] :videodev:video_open+0x8b/0xe4
[ 267.373325] *pdpt = 0000000011ebc001 *pde = 0000000000000000
[ 267.373325] Oops: 0000 [#1]
[ 267.373325] Modules linked in: uvcvideo(-) compat_ioctl32 videodev
v4l1_compat aes_i586 aes_generic af_packet i915 drm cpufreq_userspace
cpufreq_powersave cpufreq_ondemand cpufreq_stats freq_table
cpufreq_conservative wmi sbs sbshc ip6t_LOG nf_conntrack_ipv6 ipt_LOG
xt_limit ipt_addrtype xt_state xt_tcpudp xt_conntrack ip6table_filter
ip6_tables ipv6 nf_nat_irc nf_conntrack_irc nf_nat_ftp nf_nat
nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_conntrack_ftp nf_conntrack iptable_filter ip_tables
x_tables dm_crypt dm_mod fuse joydev arc4 ecb crypto_blkcipher ath5k
mac80211 led_class sg cfg80211 psmouse serio_raw snd_hda_intel
snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss ata_generic snd_pcm snd_timer snd_page_alloc
snd_hwdep shpchp pci_hotplug intel_agp agpgart video output battery ac
eeepc_laptop backlight button evdev uhci_hcd ehci_hcd usb_storage
libusual pcspkr usbcore thermal processor fan [last unloaded: v4l1_compat]
[ 267.373325]
[ 267.373325] Pid: 7709, comm: hald-probe-vide Not tainted (2.6.27eeepc
#61)
[ 267.373325] EIP: 0060:[<e03e13ec>] EFLAGS: 00010246 CPU: 0
[ 267.373325] EIP is at video_open+0x8b/0xe4 [videodev]
[ 267.373325] EAX: 00000000 EBX: e03e49d0 ECX: e03e1361 EDX: d1e6c000
[ 267.373325] ESI: d1ea5c80 EDI: 00000000 EBP: debf41ec ESP: d1efde98
[ 267.373325] DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 0000 GS: 0033 SS: 0068
[ 267.373325] Process hald-probe-vide (pid: 7709, ti=d1efc000
task=d1c586e0 task.ti=d1efc000)
[ 267.373325] Stack: 00000000 df1e17c0 00000000 debf41ec c01604e6
d1ea5c80 00000000 d1ea5c80
[ 267.373325] debf41ec d1efdf14 c0160406 c015d36d deae0580
def61700 d1efdf14 d1ea5c80
[ 267.373325] d1efdf14 00008001 c015d471 d1ea5c80 00000000
00000000 d1efdf14 c016692e
[ 267.373325] Call Trace:
[ 267.373325] [<c01604e6>] chrdev_open+0xe0/0xf6
[ 267.373325] [<c0160406>] chrdev_open+0x0/0xf6
[ 267.373325] [<c015d36d>] __dentry_open+0xf2/0x1da
[ 267.373325] [<c015d471>] nameidata_to_filp+0x1c/0x2c
[ 267.373325] [<c016692e>] do_filp_open+0x343/0x61e
[ 267.373325] [<c014e1ad>] handle_mm_fault+0x27d/0x528
[ 267.373325] [<c016df2d>] alloc_fd+0x46/0xad
[ 267.373325] [<c015d1a8>] do_sys_open+0x3f/0xb3
[ 267.373325] [<c015d260>] sys_open+0x1e/0x23
[ 267.373325] [<c01035c1>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x21
[ 267.373325] [<c0280000>] xfrm_state_find+0x3bb/0x4b1
[ 267.373325] =======================
[ 267.373325] Code: c4 0c 85 d2 74 6d 8b 02 8b 5e 10 85 c0 74 15 8b 00
85 c0 74 0b 83 38 02 74 0a ff 80 40 01 00 00 8b 02 eb 02 31 c0 89 46 10
31 ff <8b> 48 30 85 c9 74 36 89 f2 89 e8 ff d1 85 c0 89 c7 74 2a 8b 46
[ 267.373325] EIP: [<e03e13ec>] video_open+0x8b/0xe4 [videodev] SS:ESP
0068:d1efde98
[ 267.373325] ---[ end trace 1a1a7d2a0a55bf75 ]---
[ 267.379201] usbcore: deregistering interface driver uvcvideo