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    SubjectRe: [PATCH v2a] sysfs: Prevent crash on unset sysfs group attributes

    * Bruno Prémont <bonbons@linux-vserver.org> wrote:

    > Do not let the kernel crash when a device is registered with
    > sysfs while group attributes are not set (aka NULL).
    >
    > Warn about the offender with some information about the offending
    > device.
    >
    > This would warn instead of trying NULL pointer deref like:
    > BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)
    > IP: [<ffffffff81152673>] internal_create_group+0x83/0x1a0
    > PGD 0
    > Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
    > CPU 0
    > Modules linked in:
    >
    > Pid: 1, comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.4.0-rc1-x86_64 #3 HP ProLiant DL360 G4
    > RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81152673>] [<ffffffff81152673>] internal_create_group+0x83/0x1a0
    > RSP: 0018:ffff88019485fd70 EFLAGS: 00010202
    > RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000001
    > RDX: ffff880192e99908 RSI: ffff880192e99630 RDI: ffffffff81a26c60
    > RBP: ffff88019485fdc0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
    > R10: ffff880192e99908 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffffff81a16a00
    > R13: ffff880192e99908 R14: ffffffff81a16900 R15: 0000000000000000
    > FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88019bc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
    > CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
    > CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 0000000001a0c000 CR4: 00000000000007f0
    > DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
    > DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
    > Process swapper/0 (pid: 1, threadinfo ffff88019485e000, task ffff880194878000)
    > Stack:
    > ffff88019485fdd0 ffff880192da9d60 0000000000000000 ffff880192e99908
    > ffff880192e995d8 0000000000000001 ffffffff81a16a00 ffff880192da9d60
    > 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffff88019485fdd0 ffffffff811527be
    > Call Trace:
    > [<ffffffff811527be>] sysfs_create_group+0xe/0x10
    > [<ffffffff81376ca6>] device_add_groups+0x46/0x80
    > [<ffffffff81377d3d>] device_add+0x46d/0x6a0
    > ...
    >
    > Signed-off-by: Bruno Prémont <bonbons@linux-vserver.org>

    Still-Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

    Thanks,

    Ingo
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