Re: [BUG -tip] unable to handle kernel paging request

Luis Henriques
2009-04-23T18:27:22Z

(CC'ing Avi Kivity and Jan Kiszka)
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 01:59:08PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 05:59:13PM +0100, Luis Henriques wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > (not sure if I'm CC'ing all the relevant persons...)
> >
> > I am hitting this bug, which occurs mainly when I am shutting down my laptop. I
> > took a look at the cpufreq code and found out something which I am not sure if it
> > is related with this bug (or even if it is an issue at all):
> >
> > void cpufreq_notify_transition(struct cpufreq_freqs *freqs, unsigned int state)
> > {
> > struct cpufreq_policy *policy;
> >
> > BUG_ON(irqs_disabled());
> >
> > freqs->flags = cpufreq_driver->flags;
> >
> > ...
> >
> > This code accesses cpufreq_driver without using the cpufreq_driver_lock. I
> > believe this is the only place in the code where this lock is not obtaining
> > before accessing the global cpufreq_driver.
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
> Well, one thought would be that SRCU is protecting it, but when I look
> at the code, SRCU is instead only protecting the notifier chain itself.
> So SRCU is -not- a substitute for cpufreq_driver_lock in this case.
>
> But the "freqs" argument looks to be a parameter block private to the
> caller, so the modification of freqs->old is safe. Ditto for
> adjust_jiffies().
>
> This does use per-CPU data, but it is not clear to me how preemption is
> disabled -- or that it is always operating on the current CPU, for that
> matter. And the few notifier callbacks I looked at did not have any
> locking either.
>
> So is the cpufreq_driver_lock acquired at a higher level, for example,
> by the guy who calls through the cpufreq_driver control blocks?
>
> Thanx, Paul

I believe my problem has finally been solved by commit
888d256e9c565cb61505bd218eb37c81fe77a325 in kvm git tree. Basically, the kvm
notifier for the cpufreq was not being unregistered when kvm module was
unloaded and, thus, when notifier_call_chain invoked the handler for the kvm,
there was a NULL pointer there.

Does this make sense to everybody?

Anyway, is there any reason for the following code in notifier_call_chain() to
be protected by ifdefs:

#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_NOTIFIERS
if (unlikely(!func_ptr_is_kernel_text(nb->notifier_call))) {
WARN(1, "Invalid notifier called!");
nb = next_nb;
continue;
}
#endif
ret = nb->notifier_call(nb, val, v);

Because I believe it would be nicer to have this check unconditional -- it would
still warn the user and would prevent eventual NULL pointers.

Regards,
--
Luis Henriques

> > --
> > Luis Henriques
> >
> > [ 2015.908598] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 0000737463656a6f
> > [ 2015.908606] IP: [<0000737463656a6f>] 0x737463656a6f
> > [ 2015.908616] PGD 0
> > [ 2015.908620] Oops: 0010 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
> > [ 2015.908627] last sysfs file: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_setspeed
> > [ 2015.908631] CPU 0
> > [ 2015.908635] Modules linked in: ipv6 powernow_k8 cpufreq_stats af_packet cpufreq_conservative cpufreq_ondemand freq_table cpufreq_powersave cpufreq_userspace sbp2 loop snd_hda_codec_atihdmi snd_hda_codec_realtek rfkill snd_hda_intel ath5k backlight snd_hda_codec evdev i2c_piix4 psmouse k8temp snd_hwdep snd_pcm snd_timer led_class snd_page_alloc input_polldev battery processor ac button sg sr_mod cdrom ata_generic pata_acpi sd_mod ohci_hcd ohci1394 ieee1394 pata_atiixp ahci libata ide_pci_generic ehci_hcd r8169 mii scsi_mod usbcore ide_core thermal fan [last unloaded: kvm]
> > [ 2015.908723] Pid: 3117, comm: powernowd Tainted: G M 2.6.30-rc1-tip-01567-gacf5b32 #19 Satellite A210
> > [ 2015.908727] RIP: 0010:[<0000737463656a6f>] [<0000737463656a6f>] 0x737463656a6f
> > [ 2015.908734] RSP: 0018:ffff88007b4ffcd0 EFLAGS: 00010282
> > [ 2015.908737] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffffffffa03957b0
> > [ 2015.908740] RDX: ffff88007b4ffdb8 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffffffffa03957b0
> > [ 2015.908744] RBP: ffff88007b4ffd08 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
> > [ 2015.908747] R10: ffffffff80274269 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 00000000fffffffd
> > [ 2015.908750] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff88007b4ffdb8 R15: 0000000000000000
> > [ 2015.908755] FS: 00007f327af266f0(0000) GS:ffff880001042000(0000) knlGS:00000000f6b24720
> > [ 2015.908758] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
> > [ 2015.908762] CR2: 0000737463656a6f CR3: 000000007a4ca000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
> > [ 2015.908765] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
> > [ 2015.908769] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
> > [ 2015.908772] Process powernowd (pid: 3117, threadinfo ffff88007b4fe000, task ffff88007d864020)
> > [ 2015.908776] Stack:
> > [ 2015.908778] ffffffff8027465f ffff88007b4ffcf8 ffffffff810113a0 0000000000000000
> > [ 2015.908786] 00000000ffffffff ffffffff81011318 0000000000000000 ffff88007b4ffd58
> > [ 2015.908795] ffffffff8027480e 0000000000000000 ffff88007b4ffdb8 0000000000000000
> > [ 2015.908805] Call Trace:
> > [ 2015.908808] [<ffffffff8027465f>] ? notifier_call_chain+0x3f/0x80
> > [ 2015.908817] [<ffffffff8027480e>] __srcu_notifier_call_chain+0x5e/0x90
> > [ 2015.908824] [<ffffffff80274856>] srcu_notifier_call_chain+0x16/0x20
> > [ 2015.908830] [<ffffffff804988a9>] cpufreq_notify_transition+0x89/0xd0
> > [ 2015.908837] [<ffffffffa030da05>] powernowk8_target+0x285/0x7c0 [powernow_k8]
> > [ 2015.908845] [<ffffffffa02da072>] ? cpufreq_set+0x32/0xc0 [cpufreq_userspace]
> > [ 2015.908852] [<ffffffff8049862c>] __cpufreq_driver_target+0x3c/0x40
> > [ 2015.908858] [<ffffffffa02da0ce>] cpufreq_set+0x8e/0xc0 [cpufreq_userspace]
> > [ 2015.908865] [<ffffffff80498bbd>] store_scaling_setspeed+0x6d/0x80
> > [ 2015.908871] [<ffffffff8049a66f>] store+0x6f/0xa0
> > [ 2015.908876] [<ffffffff8037a54f>] sysfs_write_file+0xcf/0x140
> > [ 2015.908883] [<ffffffff80318b4b>] vfs_write+0xcb/0x170
> > [ 2015.908889] [<ffffffff80318ce5>] sys_write+0x55/0x90
> > [ 2015.908895] [<ffffffff8020c1f2>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
> > [ 2015.908902] Code: Bad RIP value.
> > [ 2015.908907] RIP [<0000737463656a6f>] 0x737463656a6f
> > [ 2015.908913] RSP <ffff88007b4ffcd0>
> > [ 2015.908915] CR2: 0000737463656a6f
> > [ 2015.909459] ---[ end trace cefb79d041e94864 ]---
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