From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 11:39:47 +0100 > I started seeing crashes during s2ram and poweroff on all my ARM boards, > like: > > Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000 > ... > [<c04116d4>] (__list_del_entry_valid) from [<c05e8948>] (led_trigger_unregister+0x34/0xcc) > [<c05e8948>] (led_trigger_unregister) from [<c05336c4>] (phy_led_triggers_unregister+0x28/0x34) > [<c05336c4>] (phy_led_triggers_unregister) from [<c0531d44>] (phy_detach+0x30/0x74) > [<c0531d44>] (phy_detach) from [<c0538bdc>] (sh_eth_close+0x64/0x9c) > [<c0538bdc>] (sh_eth_close) from [<c04d4ce0>] (dpm_run_callback+0x48/0xc8) > > or: > > list_del corruption. prev->next should be dede6540, but was 2e323931 > ------------[ cut here ]------------ > kernel BUG at lib/list_debug.c:52! > ... > [<c02f6d70>] (__list_del_entry_valid) from [<c0425168>] (led_trigger_unregister+0x34/0xcc) > [<c0425168>] (led_trigger_unregister) from [<c03a05a0>] (phy_led_triggers_unregister+0x28/0x34) > [<c03a05a0>] (phy_led_triggers_unregister) from [<c039ec04>] (phy_detach+0x30/0x74) > [<c039ec04>] (phy_detach) from [<c03a4fc0>] (sh_eth_close+0x6c/0xa4) > [<c03a4fc0>] (sh_eth_close) from [<c0483234>] (__dev_close_many+0xac/0xd0) > > As the only clue was a kernel message like > > sh-eth ee700000.ethernet eth0: No phy led trigger registered for speed(100) > > I had to bisected this, leading to commit 4567d686f5c6d955 ("phy: > increase size of MII_BUS_ID_SIZE and bus_id"). Reverting that commit > fixed the issue. > > More investigation revealed the crashes are due to the combination of > two things: > - Truncated LED trigger names, leading to duplicate names, and > registration failures, > - Bad error handling in case of registration failures. > > Both are fixed by this patch series. Thanks for tracking this down and fixing it. Series applied, thanks.