From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Claudiu Manoil Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] gianfar: dont conditionally alloc Rx/Err irq structs Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 10:56:00 +0200 Message-ID: <5110C920.6090504@freescale.com> References: <1360007382-7876-1-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: David Miller , To: Paul Gortmaker Return-path: Received: from co9ehsobe002.messaging.microsoft.com ([207.46.163.25]:33047 "EHLO co9outboundpool.messaging.microsoft.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755624Ab3BEI4b (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Feb 2013 03:56:31 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1360007382-7876-1-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 2/4/2013 9:49 PM, Paul Gortmaker wrote: > 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 > Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker > --- > 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); > Thanks Paul. I guess I was so fixated on the "FEC" model legacy code that I didn't pay attention to the SQ_SG_MODE (which is btw a misleading mode name) case that also features multiple interrupt sources. Thanks, Claudiu