From: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org,
Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>,
Claudiu Manoil <claudiu.manoil@freescale.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next] gianfar: dont conditionally alloc Rx/Err irq structs
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 14:49:42 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1360007382-7876-1-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> (raw)
Commit ee873fda3bec7c668407b837fc5519eb961fcd37
"gianfar: Pack struct gfar_priv_grp into three cachelines"
causes the following null dereference at driver init on sbc8548:
libphy: Freescale PowerQUICC MII Bus: probed
Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x00000000
Faulting instruction address: 0xc01d6a38
Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
[...]
NIP [c01d6a38] gfar_parse_group+0x228/0x280
LR [c01d6a34] gfar_parse_group+0x224/0x280
Call Trace:
[ef82dd60] [c01d6a34] gfar_parse_group+0x224/0x280 (unreliable)
[ef82dd90] [c01d73a4] gfar_probe+0x284/0xfe0
The reason is that the commit also changed the allocation of the
Rx and error handling irq structs to be skipped for !MQ_MG_MODE.
In the !MQ_MG_MODE case, only the Tx irq struct is allocated.
Digging further, we see that MQ_MG_MODE is set only if we find
the OF compatible string "fsl,etsec2".
A quick grep in the dts directory shows lots of boards that support
Rx/Tx/Err, but without this specific compat string. And hence they
go after the unallocated Rx/Error structs and cause the above oops.
Hence such a change can not be deployed until all the dts files
are updated and sufficiently deployed. Further, the optimization
is of limited value, since the kmalloc'd struct in question has only
a single unsigned int, and an (IFNAMSIZ + 6) sized string.
Note that no changes to the freeing code are needed here, as it
already did an unconditional free of Rx/Tx/Error gfar_irqinfo.
Cc: Claudiu Manoil <claudiu.manoil@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c | 16 ++++------------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c
index 19c54a0..75734bf 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.c
@@ -580,19 +580,11 @@ static int gfar_parse_group(struct device_node *np,
u32 *queue_mask;
int i;
- if (priv->mode == MQ_MG_MODE) {
- for (i = 0; i < GFAR_NUM_IRQS; i++) {
- grp->irqinfo[i] = kzalloc(sizeof(struct gfar_irqinfo),
- GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!grp->irqinfo[i])
- return -ENOMEM;
- }
- } else {
- grp->irqinfo[GFAR_TX] = kzalloc(sizeof(struct gfar_irqinfo),
- GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!grp->irqinfo[GFAR_TX])
+ for (i = 0; i < GFAR_NUM_IRQS; i++) {
+ grp->irqinfo[i] = kzalloc(sizeof(struct gfar_irqinfo),
+ GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!grp->irqinfo[i])
return -ENOMEM;
- grp->irqinfo[GFAR_RX] = grp->irqinfo[GFAR_ER] = NULL;
}
grp->regs = of_iomap(np, 0);
--
1.8.1.2
next reply other threads:[~2013-02-04 19:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-04 19:49 Paul Gortmaker [this message]
2013-02-05 2:08 ` [PATCH net-next] gianfar: dont conditionally alloc Rx/Err irq structs David Miller
2013-02-05 8:56 ` Claudiu Manoil
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