Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] cpuidle: Check for dev before deregistering it.

[Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/03/2013 10:33 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Tuesday, December 03, 2013 10:59:58 AM Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > If not, we could end up in the unfortunate situation where
> > we dereference a NULL pointer b/c we have cpuidle disabled.
> >
> > This is the case when booting under Xen (which uses the
> > ACPI P/C states but disables the CPU idle driver) - and can
> > be easily reproduced when booting with cpuidle.off=1.
> >
> > BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at           (null)
> > IP: [<ffffffff8156db4a>] cpuidle_unregister_device+0x2a/0x90
> > .. snip..
> > Call Trace:
> >   [<ffffffff813b15b4>] acpi_processor_power_exit+0x3c/0x5c
> >   [<ffffffff813af0a9>] acpi_processor_stop+0x61/0xb6
> >   [<ffffffff814215bf>] __device_release_driver+0fffff81421653>] 
> > device_release_driver+0x23/0x30
> >   [<ffffffff81420ed8>] bus_remove_device+0x108/0x180
> >   [<ffffffff8141d9d9>] device_del+0x129/0x1c0
> >   [<ffffffff813cb4b0>] ? unregister_xenbus_watch+0x1f0/0x1f0
> >   [<ffffffff8141da8e>] device_unregister+0x1e/0x60
> >   [<ffffffff814243e9>] unregister_cpu+0x39/0x60
> >   [<ffffffff81019e03>] arch_unregister_cpu+0x23/0x30
> >   [<ffffffff813c3c51>] handle_vcpu_hotplug_event+0xc1/0xe0
> >   [<ffffffff813cb4f5>] xenwatch_thread+0x45/0x120
> >   [<ffffffff810af010>] ? abort_exclusive_wait+0xb0/0xb0
> >   [<ffffffff8108ec42>] kthread+0xd2/0xf0
> >   [<ffffffff8108eb70>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x180/0x180
> >   [<ffffffff816ce17c>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
> >   [<ffffffff8108eb70>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x180/0x180
> >
> > This problem also appears in 3.12 and could be a candidate for backport.
> >
> > CC: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > CC: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > CC: linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Applied, thanks!
>
> > ---
> >   drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c | 2 +-
> >   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c
> > index 2a991e4..a55e68f 100644
> > --- a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c
> > +++ b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c
> > @@ -400,7 +400,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cpuidle_register_device);
> >    */
> >   void cpuidle_unregister_device(struct cpuidle_device *dev)
> >   {
> > -       if (dev->registered == 0)
> > +       if (!dev || dev->registered == 0)
> >                 return;
> >
> >         cpuidle_pause_and_lock();
Oops, wait. Are we sure the problem is coming from cpuidle ?

The cpuidle_unregister_device is called with a NULL pointer, that 
shouldn't happen.
Konrad, you say that could be easily reproduced. How do you produce it ? 
Unplugging a cpu ?



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