Subject: [PATCH] 8390: Don't oops on starting dev queue

From: Pavel Emelyanov <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 13:01:02 +0400

The __NS8390_init tries to start the device queue before the
device is registered. This results in an oops (snipped):

[    2.865493] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000010
[    2.866106] IP: [<ffffffffa000602a>] netif_start_queue+0xb/0x12 [8390]
[    2.881267] Call Trace:
[    2.881437]  [<ffffffffa000624d>] __NS8390_init+0x102/0x15a [8390]
[    2.881999]  [<ffffffffa00062ae>] NS8390_init+0x9/0xb [8390]
[    2.882237]  [<ffffffffa000d820>] ne2k_pci_init_one+0x297/0x354 [ne2k_pci]
[    2.882955]  [<ffffffff811c7a0e>] local_pci_probe+0x12/0x16
[    2.883308]  [<ffffffff811c85ad>] pci_device_probe+0xc3/0xef
[    2.884049]  [<ffffffff8129218d>] driver_probe_device+0xbe/0x14b
[    2.884937]  [<ffffffff81292260>] __driver_attach+0x46/0x62
[    2.885170]  [<ffffffff81291788>] bus_for_each_dev+0x49/0x78
[    2.885781]  [<ffffffff81291fbb>] driver_attach+0x1c/0x1e
[    2.886089]  [<ffffffff812912ab>] bus_add_driver+0xba/0x227
[    2.886330]  [<ffffffff8129259a>] driver_register+0x9e/0x115
[    2.886933]  [<ffffffff811c8815>] __pci_register_driver+0x50/0xac
[    2.887785]  [<ffffffffa001102c>] ne2k_pci_init+0x2c/0x2e [ne2k_pci]
[    2.888093]  [<ffffffff81000212>] do_one_initcall+0x7c/0x130
[    2.888693]  [<ffffffff8106d74f>] sys_init_module+0x99/0x1da
[    2.888946]  [<ffffffff81002a2b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

This happens because the netif_start_queue sets respective bit on the dev->_tx
array which is not yet allocated.

As far as I understand the code removing the netif_start_queue from __NS8390_init
is OK, since queue will be started later on device open. Plz, correct me if I'm wrong.

Found in the Dave's current tree, so he's in Cc.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <[email-masked]>

---

diff --git a/drivers/net/lib8390.c b/drivers/net/lib8390.c
index 316bb70..e7030ce 100644
--- a/drivers/net/lib8390.c
+++ b/drivers/net/lib8390.c
@@ -1077,7 +1077,6 @@ static void __NS8390_init(struct net_device *dev, int startp)
 	ei_outb_p(ei_local->rx_start_page, e8390_base + EN1_CURPAG);
 	ei_outb_p(E8390_NODMA+E8390_PAGE0+E8390_STOP, e8390_base+E8390_CMD);
 
-	netif_start_queue(dev);
 	ei_local->tx1 = ei_local->tx2 = 0;
 	ei_local->txing = 0;