Re: [PATCH] irqdomain: remove debugfs_file from struct irq_domain

Michael Walle
2021-02-17T19:58:25Z

Hi Greg,

> There's no need to keep around a dentry pointer to a simple file that
> debugfs itself can look up when we need to remove it from the system.
> So simplify the code by deleting the variable and cleaning up the logic
> around the debugfs file.

This will generate the following oops on my board (arm64,
freescale/fsl-ls1028a-kontron-sl28-var3-ads2.dts). In debugfs_lookup()
debugfs_mount is NULL.

[ 0.000000] Linux version 5.11.0-next-20210217-00014-g41e0e92a2d05 (mwalle@mwalle01) (aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc (Debian 8.3.0-2) 8.3.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.31.1) #69 SMP PREEMPT Wed Feb 17 20:47:10 CET 2021
[..]
[ 0.000000] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000000
[ 0.000000] Mem abort info:
[ 0.000000] ESR = 0x96000004
[ 0.000000] EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
[ 0.000000] SET = 0, FnV = 0
[ 0.000000] EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
[ 0.000000] Data abort info:
[ 0.000000] ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000004
[ 0.000000] CM = 0, WnR = 0
[ 0.000000] [0000000000000000] user address but active_mm is swapper
[ 0.000000] Internal error: Oops: 96000004 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
[ 0.000000] Modules linked in:
[ 0.000000] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.11.0-next-20210217-00013-g960bc30321c0-dirty #68
[ 0.000000] Hardware name: Kontron SMARC-sAL28 (Single PHY) on SMARC Eval 2.0 carrier (DT)
[ 0.000000] pstate: 60000085 (nZCv daIf -PAN -UAO -TCO BTYPE=--)
[ 0.000000] pc : debugfs_lookup+0x64/0xa0
[ 0.000000] lr : debugfs_lookup+0x5c/0xa0
[ 0.000000] sp : ffff800011933c90
[ 0.000000] x29: ffff800011933c90 x28: 0000000000000000
[ 0.000000] x27: 0000000000000000 x26: 0000000000000001
[ 0.000000] x25: ffff00200016f100 x24: ffff800010f19750
[ 0.000000] x23: ffff80001193d000 x22: ffff800011939948
[ 0.000000] x21: ffff800011bfaf98 x20: ffff00200016f200
[ 0.000000] x19: 0000000000000000 x18: 0000000000000010
[ 0.000000] x17: 0000000000007fff x16: 00000000ffffffff
[ 0.000000] x15: ffffffffffffffff x14: ffff800011939948
[ 0.000000] x13: ffff800091933997 x12: ffff8000119cb670
[ 0.000000] x11: 0000000000000003 x10: ffff8000119b3630
[ 0.000000] x9 : ffff800010102bc4 x8 : 0000000000017fe8
[ 0.000000] x7 : c0000000ffffefff x6 : 0000000000000001
[ 0.000000] x5 : 0000000000000000 x4 : 0000000000000000
[ 0.000000] x3 : 00000000ffffffff x2 : 0000000000000000
[ 0.000000] x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : 0000000000000000
[ 0.000000] Call trace:
[ 0.000000] debugfs_lookup+0x64/0xa0
[ 0.000000] debugfs_remove_domain_dir+0x24/0x38
[ 0.000000] irq_domain_update_bus_token+0x6c/0xb8
[ 0.000000] gic_init_bases+0x19c/0x64c
[ 0.000000] gic_of_init+0x188/0x228
[ 0.000000] of_irq_init+0x1a8/0x350
[ 0.000000] irqchip_init+0x20/0x48
[ 0.000000] init_IRQ+0xd4/0x178
[ 0.000000] start_kernel+0x628/0x85c
[ 0.000000] 0x0
[ 0.000000] Code: 9128a000 9426cd08 b5000073 f94006a0 (f9400013)
[ 0.000000] random: get_random_bytes called from print_oops_end_marker+0x34/0x60 with crng_init=0
[ 0.000000] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
[ 0.000000] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task!
[ 0.000000] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task! ]---

If I revert this commit, the oops will go away.

-michael