Doug, On 09/05/2014 04:21 AM, Doug Anderson wrote: > Jaehoon, > > On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 10:21 PM, Jaehoon Chung <jh80.chung@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi Doug >> >> On 09/03/2014 08:37 AM, Doug Anderson wrote: >>> On dw_mmc there's a small race if you happen to get a card detect >>> interrupt at just the wrong time during probe. You may have enabled >>> the interrupt but host->slot[0] may be NULL. >>> >>> Fix the race by enabling interrupts all the way at the end of the >>> probe. We can also use free_irq() instead of dw_mmc specific masking >>> to mask the IRQ at removal time. Note that since we're now managing >>> freeing of the irq ourselves, there's no need to use devm. >>> >>> FYI, the crash would look like: >>> dwmmc_rockchip ff0c0000.dwmmc: DW MMC controller at irq 64, 32 bit host data width, 256 deep fifo >>> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000 >>> pgd = c0004000 >>> [00000000] *pgd=00000000 >>> ... >>> ... >>> [<c0499380>] (dw_mci_work_routine_card) from [<c0134b94>] (process_one_work+0x260/0x3c4) >>> [<c0134b94>] (process_one_work) from [<c0135b10>] (worker_thread+0x240/0x3a8) >>> [<c0135b10>] (worker_thread) from [<c013b64c>] (kthread+0x100/0x118) >>> [<c013b64c>] (kthread) from [<c0106418>] (ret_from_fork+0x14/0x20) >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Doug Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx> >>> --- >>> FYI: making dw_mmc into a module and trying module removal was not >>> tested. I'd appreciate any testing that folks can do there. This >>> code should be the equivalent and makes the error case of probe match >>> the removal case more closely now. >>> >>> drivers/mmc/host/dw_mmc.c | 17 +++++++++++------ >>> 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) >>> >>> diff --git a/drivers/mmc/host/dw_mmc.c b/drivers/mmc/host/dw_mmc.c >>> index 7f227e9..540ba3c 100644 >>> --- a/drivers/mmc/host/dw_mmc.c >>> +++ b/drivers/mmc/host/dw_mmc.c >>> @@ -2577,10 +2577,6 @@ int dw_mci_probe(struct dw_mci *host) >>> goto err_dmaunmap; >>> } >>> INIT_WORK(&host->card_work, dw_mci_work_routine_card); >>> - ret = devm_request_irq(host->dev, host->irq, dw_mci_interrupt, >>> - host->irq_flags, "dw-mci", host); >>> - if (ret) >>> - goto err_workqueue; >>> >>> if (host->pdata->num_slots) >>> host->num_slots = host->pdata->num_slots; >>> @@ -2619,11 +2615,21 @@ int dw_mci_probe(struct dw_mci *host) >>> goto err_workqueue; >>> } >>> >>> + ret = request_irq(host->irq, dw_mci_interrupt, host->irq_flags, >>> + "dw-mci", host); >>> + if (ret) >>> + goto err_initted; >> >> I didn't test and consider race condition yet. >> But if located "request_irq" at here, we can be confused something, >> since there is "dev_info(host->dev, "%d slots initialized\n", init_slots)" message at above. >> >> I think you can relocate this. > > OK, good point. Maybe we should skip this patch after all. There is > definitely a race there, but I'm not 100% sure this is the right fix > for it. I'm not sure this patch is fixed for it, too. So i will check more with your patch. But i think if we can maintain current status, it will be the best. Best Regards, Jaehoon Chung > > In general we probably need to look at the dw_mci_work_routine_card() > a bit more (used for card detect) since that's only used for official > "CD" lines. ...and as we've talked about anyone who wants to properly > power their card off should be using GPIOs, thus they won't get the > benefit of whatever dw_mci_work_routine_card() does. > > I did play around a little bit with trying to test the module remove. > Both before and after my patch it hung. > > -Doug > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-mmc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html