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SubjectRe: [PATCH v1] x86: fix kernel crash on boot due to NULL dereference
Hi Andy,

Thanks for the patch.

On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 05:59:41PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> The patch "x86, irq: Count legacy IRQs by legacy_pic->nr_legacy_irqs instead of
> NR_IRQS_LEGACY" (linux-next commit 95d76acc7518d566df18d67c1343bb375b78d1f3)
> removed reserved interrupts for the platforms that do not have a legacy IOAPIC.
> Meanwhile it breks a boot on Intel MID platforms such as Medfield.

Have you tested it against Merrifield?

Br, David

>
> [ 0.000000] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000003a
> [ 0.000000] IP: [<c107079a>] setup_irq+0xf/0x4d
> [ 0.000000] *pdpt = 0000000000000000 *pde = 9bbf32453167e510
> [ 0.000000] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
> [ 0.000000] Modules linked in:
> [ 0.000000] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.16.0-rc5-next-20140717-00043-g6ab7e8d-dirty #497
> [ 0.000000] task: c184bc80 ti: c183e000 task.ti: c183e000
> [ 0.000000] EIP: 0060:[<c107079a>] EFLAGS: 00210046 CPU: 0
> [ 0.000000] EIP is at setup_irq+0xf/0x4d
> [ 0.000000] EAX: 00000000 EBX: 00000002 ECX: 00000000 EDX: 00000002
> [ 0.000000] ESI: 000000d5 EDI: c184e280 EBP: c183ffc0 ESP: c183ffb4
> [ 0.000000] DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0000 SS: 0068
> [ 0.000000] CR0: 8005003b CR2: 0000003a CR3: 0195b000 CR4: 000006b0
> [ 0.000000] Stack:
> [ 0.000000] 00000100 000000d5 c195c800 c183ffd0 c18eff07 c1935100 00010800 c183ffd8
> [ 0.000000] c18efca0 c183ffe8 c18ec92e c1935100 00020800 c183fff8 c18ec2b4 00020800
> [ 0.000000] c195c800 025e5003 00000000
> [ 0.000000] Call Trace:
> [ 0.000000] [<c18eff07>] native_init_IRQ+0x265/0x273
> [ 0.000000] [<c18efca0>] init_IRQ+0x2c/0x2e
> [ 0.000000] [<c18ec92e>] start_kernel+0x1e4/0x32a
> [ 0.000000] [<c18ec2b4>] i386_start_kernel+0x82/0x86
> [ 0.000000] Code: eb 05 bf ea ff ff ff 8b 83 c4 00 00 00 e8 f6 a3 01 00 8d 65 f4 89 f8 5b 5e 5f 5d c3 55 89 e5 57 89 d7 56 53 89 c3 e8 4b e4 ff ff <f6> 40 3a 02 89 c6 74 16 b8 2b 3e 77 c1 ba 0a 05 00 00 e8 83 60
> [ 0.000000] EIP: [<c107079a>] setup_irq+0xf/0x4d SS:ESP 0068:c183ffb4
> [ 0.000000] CR2: 000000000000003a
> [ 0.000000] ---[ end trace cb88537fdc8fa200 ]---
> [ 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!
>
> The culprit is an uncoditional setting of the IRQ2 which is used as cascade IRQ
> on legacy platforms. It seems we have to check if we have enough legacy IRQs
> reserved before we can call setup_irq().
>
> The proposed patch adds such check.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
> ---
> arch/x86/kernel/irqinit.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/irqinit.c b/arch/x86/kernel/irqinit.c
> index 1e6cff5..44f1ed4 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/irqinit.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/irqinit.c
> @@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ void __init native_init_IRQ(void)
> set_intr_gate(i, interrupt[i - FIRST_EXTERNAL_VECTOR]);
> }
>
> - if (!acpi_ioapic && !of_ioapic)
> + if (!acpi_ioapic && !of_ioapic && nr_legacy_irqs())
> setup_irq(2, &irq2);
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
> --
> 2.0.1
>


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