* Andrew Nelless <andrew@nelless.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I booted up 2.6.24-rc1 this morning [Real early over a brew ;-)] and
> was having a problems with multiple ~5 second hangs on SATA/drive init
> (Something to do with "EH" something-or-other and resets but I'll
> email in separately about it later unless its fixed by the time I get
> the chance).
>
> Anyway, I went to fire up netconsole to get a decent log dump and hit
> across the following nasty. Netconsole works fine in 2.6.23.1 with a
> similar config and the same kernel parameters.
>
> A shot of the screen is the only method I could come up with to
> capture the log, I hope that is OK, it is pretty readable.
>
>
> The nasty:
> http://andotnet.nfshost.com/linux/2.6.24-rc1-netconsole-nullderef.jpg
the NULL dereference is here:
(gdb) list *0xffffffff804a9504
0xffffffff804a9504 is in natsemi_poll (drivers/net/natsemi.c:717).
712 return count;
713 }
714
715 static inline void __iomem *ns_ioaddr(struct net_device *dev)
716 {
717 return (void __iomem *) dev->base_addr;
718 }
719
which is this code from natsemi.c:
2227 struct net_device *dev = np->dev;
2228 void __iomem * ioaddr = ns_ioaddr(dev);
2229 int work_done = 0;
seems like the NAPI changes in -rc1 added an np->dev field but forgot to
initialize it ...
does the patch below fix the oops for you?
Ingo
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Subject: natsemi: fix oops, link back netdevice from private-struct
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
this commit:
commit bea3348eef
Author: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Wed Oct 3 16:41:36 2007 -0700
[NET]: Make NAPI polling independent of struct net_device objects.
added np->dev to drivers/net/natsemi.c's struct netdev_private, but
forgot to initialize that new field upon driver init. The result was
a predictable NULL dereference oops the first time the hardware
generated an interrupt.
Reported-by: Andrew Nelless <andrew@nelless.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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