Hi, Felipe Balbi wrote: > On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 11:31:30AM +0200, Lothar Waßmann wrote: > > There is no need to throw the baby out with the bath due to a bad > > failure analysis. The commit: > > 7adb5c876e9c usb: musb: Fix panic upon musb_am335x module removal > > came to a wrong conclusion about the cause of the crash it was > > "fixing". The real culprit was the phy-am335x module that was removed > > from underneath its users that were still referencing data from it. > > After having fixed this in a previous patch, module unloading can be > > reinstated. > > > > Another bug with module loading/unloading was the fact, that after > > removing the devices instantiated from DT their 'OF_POPULATED' flag > > was still set, so that re-loading the module after an unload had no > > effect. This is also fixed in this patch. > > now this is a good commit log. I still can't see the need for the other > patch adding try_module_get(), though. Another thing, this needs to be > reviewed by DT folks too. > Without holding a reference to the phy module, the module may be unloaded when its resources are still in use which may lead to the crash observed in the above stated commit. > > Signed-off-by: Lothar Waßmann <LW@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > drivers/usb/musb/musb_am335x.c | 23 ++++++++++++++++++----- > > 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) > > > > diff --git a/drivers/usb/musb/musb_am335x.c b/drivers/usb/musb/musb_am335x.c > > index 164c868..152a6f5 100644 > > --- a/drivers/usb/musb/musb_am335x.c > > +++ b/drivers/usb/musb/musb_am335x.c > > @@ -19,6 +19,22 @@ err: > > return ret; > > } > > > > +static int of_remove_populated_child(struct device *dev, void *d) > > +{ > > + struct platform_device *pdev = to_platform_device(dev); > > + > > + of_device_unregister(pdev); > > + of_node_clear_flag(pdev->dev.of_node, OF_POPULATED); > > I don't think this should be called by drivers; rather by the bus. > Possibly the right thing to do would be to use of_platform_depopulate() in the remove function to pair up with op_platform_populate() in the probe function, but doing this results in a crash in platform_device_del() (called from platform_device_unregister()) when release_resource() is being called on resources that were never properly registered with the device: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000018 pgd = 8dd64000 [00000018] *pgd=8ddc2831, *pte=00000000, *ppte=00000000 Internal error: Oops: 17 [#1] PREEMPT ARM Modules linked in: musb_am335x(-) [last unloaded: snd] CPU: 0 PID: 1435 Comm: modprobe Not tainted 3.16.0-rc5-next-20140717-dbg+ #13 task: 8da00880 ti: 8dda0000 task.ti: 8dda0000 PC is at release_resource+0x14/0x7c LR is at release_resource+0x10/0x7c pc : [<8003165c>] lr : [<80031658>] psr: a0000013 sp : 8dda1ec0 ip : 8dda0000 fp : 00000000 r10: 00000000 r9 : 8dda0000 r8 : 8deb7c10 r7 : 8deb7c00 r6 : 00000200 r5 : 00000001 r4 : 8deed380 r3 : 00000000 r2 : 00000000 r1 : 00000011 r0 : 806772a0 Flags: NzCv IRQs on FIQs on Mode SVC_32 ISA ARM Segment user Control: 10c5387d Table: 8dd64019 DAC: 00000015 Process modprobe (pid: 1435, stack limit = 0x8dda0238) Stack: (0x8dda1ec0 to 0x8dda2000) 1ec0: 8da00880 8deed380 00000001 802f850c 00000000 8deed380 44e10620 44e1062f 1ee0: 8deb7c00 00000000 80398c5c 00000081 8000e904 802f8848 8deb7c10 80398d0c 1f00: 00000000 802f3470 8d8d7200 8ddc84b0 8d92e810 7f0f9014 8d92e844 7f0f7010 1f20: 8d92e810 802f8110 802f80f8 802f68f8 7f0f9014 8d92e810 7f0f9014 802f7238 1f40: 7f0f9014 00000000 20000013 802f6764 7f0f9058 8007ec94 00000000 6273756d 1f60: 336d615f 00783533 8da00880 8000e764 00000001 80053ae4 00000058 76f41000 1f80: 7eb299e8 01290838 00000011 00000081 60000010 0000e854 7eb299e8 01290838 1fa0: 00000011 8000e740 7eb299e8 01290838 012908a0 00000080 00000000 00000001 1fc0: 7eb299e8 01290838 00000011 00000081 012908a0 00000000 01290844 00000000 1fe0: 76eb76f0 7eb2995c 0000a534 76eb76fc 60000010 012908a0 aaaaaaaa aaaaaaaa [<8003165c>] (release_resource) from [<802f850c>] (platform_device_del+0xb4/0xf4) [<802f850c>] (platform_device_del) from [<802f8848>] (platform_device_unregister+0xc/0x18) [<802f8848>] (platform_device_unregister) from [<80398d0c>] (of_platform_device_destroy+0xb0/0xc8) [<80398d0c>] (of_platform_device_destroy) from [<802f3470>] (device_for_each_child+0x34/0x74) [<802f3470>] (device_for_each_child) from [<7f0f7010>] (am335x_child_remove+0x10/0x24 [musb_am335x]) [<7f0f7010>] (am335x_child_remove [musb_am335x]) from [<802f8110>] (platform_drv_remove+0x18/0x1c) [<802f8110>] (platform_drv_remove) from [<802f68f8>] (__device_release_driver+0x70/0xc4) [<802f68f8>] (__device_release_driver) from [<802f7238>] (driver_detach+0xb4/0xb8) [<802f7238>] (driver_detach) from [<802f6764>] (bus_remove_driver+0x5c/0xa4) [<802f6764>] (bus_remove_driver) from [<8007ec94>] (SyS_delete_module+0x120/0x18c) [<8007ec94>] (SyS_delete_module) from [<8000e740>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x48) Code: e1a04000 e59f0068 eb10bac4 e5943010 (e5932018) ---[ end trace 24ca43dfc1a677d6 ]--- The cause for this seems to be calling platform_device_unregister() on a device that was created with device_add() (rather than platform_device_add()). The call chain for registering a device from of_platform_populate() is: of_platform_bus_create() of_platform_device_create_pdata() of_device_add() device_add() The call chain for the of_platform_depopulate() is: of_platform_device_destroy() platform_device_unregister() platform_device_del() release_resource() The resources that are being released here have the 'parent' pointer set to NULL which provokes the crash. This pointer would have been set up by insert_resource() which is called by platform_device_add() but not by device_add(). So, the conclusion to me is that of_platform_populate() / of_platform_depopulate() are broken, because one uses device_* functions while the other uses the platform_device_* counterparts. Since there are no current users of of_platform_depopulate() this obviously has gone unnoticed so far. 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