Subject: Re: [PATCH] brcmfmac: stop watchdog before detach and free everything

From: Arend van Spriel <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 28 May 2018 11:51:57 +0200

On 5/28/2018 9:50 AM, Michael Trimarchi wrote:
> Watchdog need to be stopped in brcmf_sdio_remove to avoid
> i
> The system is going down NOW!
> [ 1348.110759] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 000002f8
> Sent SIGTERM to all processes
> [ 1348.121412] Mem abort info:
> [ 1348.126962]   ESR = 0x96000004
> [ 1348.130023]   Exception class = DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
> [ 1348.135948]   SET = 0, FnV = 0
> [ 1348.138997]   EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
> [ 1348.142154] Data abort info:
> [ 1348.145045]   ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000004
> [ 1348.148884]   CM = 0, WnR = 0
> [ 1348.151861] user pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp = (____ptrval____)
> [ 1348.158475] [00000000000002f8] pgd=0000000000000000
> [ 1348.163364] Internal error: Oops: 96000004 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
> [ 1348.168927] Modules linked in: ipv6
> [ 1348.172421] CPU: 3 PID: 1421 Comm: brcmf_wdog/mmc0 Not tainted 4.17.0-rc5-next-20180517 #18
> [ 1348.180757] Hardware name: Amarula A64-Relic (DT)
> [ 1348.185455] pstate: 60000005 (nZCv daif -PAN -UAO)
> [ 1348.190251] pc : brcmf_sdiod_freezer_count+0x0/0x20
> [ 1348.195124] lr : brcmf_sdio_watchdog_thread+0x64/0x290

Hi Michael,

Thanks for the patch. In normal scenario the callstack looks like this:

brcmf_sdio_remove()
	-> brcmf_detach()
		-> brcmf_bus_stop()
			-> brcmf_sdio_bus_stop()

In brcmf_sdio_bus_stop() the watchdog is terminated. So in what scenario 
did you encounter this null pointer deref?

Regards,
Arend