3.16.75-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Carsten Schmid <carsten_schmid@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 7aa1bb2ffd84d6b9b5f546b079bb15cd0ab6e76e upstream. With defective USB sticks we see the following error happen: usb 1-3: new high-speed USB device number 6 using xhci_hcd usb 1-3: device descriptor read/64, error -71 usb 1-3: device descriptor read/64, error -71 usb 1-3: new high-speed USB device number 7 using xhci_hcd usb 1-3: device descriptor read/64, error -71 usb 1-3: unable to get BOS descriptor set usb 1-3: New USB device found, idVendor=0781, idProduct=5581 usb 1-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 ... BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000008 This comes from the following place: [ 1660.215380] IP: xhci_set_usb2_hardware_lpm+0xdf/0x3d0 [xhci_hcd] [ 1660.222092] PGD 0 P4D 0 [ 1660.224918] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI [ 1660.425520] CPU: 1 PID: 38 Comm: kworker/1:1 Tainted: P U W O 4.14.67-apl #1 [ 1660.434277] Workqueue: usb_hub_wq hub_event [usbcore] [ 1660.439918] task: ffffa295b6ae4c80 task.stack: ffffad4580150000 [ 1660.446532] RIP: 0010:xhci_set_usb2_hardware_lpm+0xdf/0x3d0 [xhci_hcd] [ 1660.453821] RSP: 0018:ffffad4580153c70 EFLAGS: 00010046 [ 1660.459655] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffa295b4d7c000 RCX: 0000000000000002 [ 1660.467625] RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: ffffffff984a55b2 RDI: ffffffff984a55b2 [ 1660.475586] RBP: ffffad4580153cc8 R08: 0000000000d6520a R09: 0000000000000001 [ 1660.483556] R10: ffffad4580a004a0 R11: 0000000000000286 R12: ffffa295b4d7c000 [ 1660.491525] R13: 0000000000010648 R14: ffffa295a84e1800 R15: 0000000000000000 [ 1660.499494] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffa295bfc80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 1660.508530] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 1660.514947] CR2: 0000000000000008 CR3: 000000025a114000 CR4: 00000000003406a0 [ 1660.522917] Call Trace: [ 1660.525657] usb_set_usb2_hardware_lpm+0x3d/0x70 [usbcore] [ 1660.531792] usb_disable_device+0x242/0x260 [usbcore] [ 1660.537439] usb_disconnect+0xc1/0x2b0 [usbcore] [ 1660.542600] hub_event+0x596/0x18f0 [usbcore] [ 1660.547467] ? trace_preempt_on+0xdf/0x100 [ 1660.552040] ? process_one_work+0x1c1/0x410 [ 1660.556708] process_one_work+0x1d2/0x410 [ 1660.561184] ? preempt_count_add.part.3+0x21/0x60 [ 1660.566436] worker_thread+0x2d/0x3f0 [ 1660.570522] kthread+0x122/0x140 [ 1660.574123] ? process_one_work+0x410/0x410 [ 1660.578792] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x60/0x60 [ 1660.583849] ret_from_fork+0x3a/0x50 [ 1660.587839] Code: 00 49 89 c3 49 8b 84 24 50 16 00 00 8d 4a ff 48 8d 04 c8 48 89 ca 4c 8b 10 45 8b 6a 04 48 8b 00 48 89 45 c0 49 8b 86 80 03 00 00 <48> 8b 40 08 8b 40 03 0f 1f 44 00 00 45 85 ff 0f 84 81 01 00 00 [ 1660.608980] RIP: xhci_set_usb2_hardware_lpm+0xdf/0x3d0 [xhci_hcd] RSP: ffffad4580153c70 [ 1660.617921] CR2: 0000000000000008 Tracking this down shows that udev->bos is NULL in the following code: (xhci.c, in xhci_set_usb2_hardware_lpm) field = le32_to_cpu(udev->bos->ext_cap->bmAttributes); <<<<<<< here xhci_dbg(xhci, "%s port %d USB2 hardware LPM\n", enable ? "enable" : "disable", port_num + 1); if (enable) { /* Host supports BESL timeout instead of HIRD */ if (udev->usb2_hw_lpm_besl_capable) { /* if device doesn't have a preferred BESL value use a * default one which works with mixed HIRD and BESL * systems. See XHCI_DEFAULT_BESL definition in xhci.h */ if ((field & USB_BESL_SUPPORT) && (field & USB_BESL_BASELINE_VALID)) hird = USB_GET_BESL_BASELINE(field); else hird = udev->l1_params.besl; The failing case is when disabling LPM. So it is sufficient to avoid access to udev->bos by moving the instruction into the "enable" clause. Signed-off-by: Carsten Schmid <carsten_schmid@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/usb/host/xhci.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/usb/host/xhci.c +++ b/drivers/usb/host/xhci.c @@ -4178,7 +4178,6 @@ int xhci_set_usb2_hardware_lpm(struct us pm_addr = port_array[port_num] + PORTPMSC; pm_val = readl(pm_addr); hlpm_addr = port_array[port_num] + PORTHLPMC; - field = le32_to_cpu(udev->bos->ext_cap->bmAttributes); xhci_dbg(xhci, "%s port %d USB2 hardware LPM\n", enable ? "enable" : "disable", port_num + 1); @@ -4190,6 +4189,7 @@ int xhci_set_usb2_hardware_lpm(struct us * default one which works with mixed HIRD and BESL * systems. See XHCI_DEFAULT_BESL definition in xhci.h */ + field = le32_to_cpu(udev->bos->ext_cap->bmAttributes); if ((field & USB_BESL_SUPPORT) && (field & USB_BESL_BASELINE_VALID)) hird = USB_GET_BESL_BASELINE(field);