Linux 2.6.38-rc6

[Anca Emanuel]

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 6:37 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds at linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 5:20 AM, Anca Emanuel <anca.emanuel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Every boot?
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>>> And just out of interest, what happens if you don't have the vesafb
>>> driver at all?
>>
>> I used 'e' option from grub, removed the 'set gfxpayload = $linux_gfx_mode'
>> and it works.
>>
>> dmesg: http://pastebin.com/JAZsk4vD
>
> Hmm. So it definitely seems to be the hand-over.
>
> Does this patch make any difference? When we unregister the old
> framebuffer, we still leave it in the registered_fb[] array, which
> looks wrong. But it would also be interesting to hear if setting
> CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON or CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC makes any difference
> (they'd help detect accesses to free'd data structures).
>
>                          Linus
>
 drivers/video/fbmem.c |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/video/fbmem.c b/drivers/video/fbmem.c
index e2bf953..e8f8925 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fbmem.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbmem.c
@@ -1511,6 +1511,7 @@ void remove_conflicting_framebuffers(struct
apertures_struct *a,
 			       "%s vs %s - removing generic driver\n",
 			       name, registered_fb[i]->fix.id);
 			unregister_framebuffer(registered_fb[i]);
+			registered_fb[i] = NULL;
 		}
 	}
 }


Tested the patch, and now I get this:
dmesg: http://pastebin.com/ieMNrA7C

[   12.252328] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference
at 00000000000003b8
[   12.252342] IP: [<ffffffff81311178>] fb_mmap+0x58/0x1d0
[   12.252354] PGD 78e6c067 PUD 78e6d067 PMD 0
[   12.252360] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
[   12.252364] last sysfs file: /sys/module/snd/initstate
[   12.252370] CPU 0
[   12.252372] Modules linked in: nouveau(+) snd ttm drm_kms_helper
psmouse serio_raw drm soundcore lp snd_page_alloc i2c_algo_bit video
parport pata_marvell ahci r8169 libahci
[   12.252393]
[   12.252397] Pid: 244, comm: plymouthd Not tainted
2.6.38-rc6-git3-patch-linus+ #2 MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO.,LTD
MS-7360/MS-7360
[   12.252407] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81311178>]  [<ffffffff81311178>]
fb_mmap+0x58/0x1d0
[   12.252414] RSP: 0018:ffff880078e8fd88  EFLAGS: 00010293
[   12.252418] RAX: 00000000ffffffea RBX: ffff88007047d228 RCX: 0000000000000000
[   12.252423] RDX: 000fffffffffffff RSI: ffff88007047d228 RDI: ffff880078f5d840
[   12.252428] RBP: ffff880078e8fdc8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffff88007047d228
[   12.252432] R10: ffff88006f9d9cf0 R11: ffff88006f9d9d28 R12: ffff880037363800
[   12.252437] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff88007047d228
[   12.252442] FS:  00007fb5fbaa4720(0000) GS:ffff88007fc00000(0000)
knlGS:0000000000000000
[   12.252448] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[   12.252453] CR2: 00000000000003b8 CR3: 0000000078e6b000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
[   12.252458] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[   12.252463] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[   12.252468] Process plymouthd (pid: 244, threadinfo
ffff880078e8e000, task ffff88003737ad80)
[   12.252473] Stack:
[   12.252476]  ffff880037363800 00000000000000b8 ffff880078e8fdd8
ffffffffffffffea
[   12.252484]  ffff880037363800 00000000000006bb 00000000006bb000
ffff88007047d228
[   12.252491]  ffff880078e8fe98 ffffffff81130543 ffff880078f5d840
0000000000000000
[   12.252499] Call Trace:
[   12.252507]  [<ffffffff81130543>] mmap_region+0x3c3/0x500
[   12.252514]  [<ffffffff81010d7e>] ?
arch_get_unmapped_area_topdown+0x1ce/0x2f0
[   12.252521]  [<ffffffff811309c4>] do_mmap_pgoff+0x344/0x380
[   12.252528]  [<ffffffff810524f1>] ? finish_task_switch+0x41/0xe0
[   12.252535]  [<ffffffff815ac0c3>] ? schedule+0x403/0xa00
[   12.252541]  [<ffffffff81130bfe>] sys_mmap_pgoff+0x1fe/0x230
[   12.252546]  [<ffffffff810108c9>] sys_mmap+0x29/0x30
[   12.252551]  [<ffffffff8100bf02>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[   12.252556] Code: ba ff ff ff ff ff ff 0f 00 48 89 f3 48 8b 40 30
8b 80 b8 00 00 00 25 ff ff 0f 00 49 39 d6 4c 8b 2c c5 c0 cf aa 81 b8
ea ff ff ff <4d> 8b bd b8 03 00 00 76 1f 48 8b 5d d8 4c 8b 65 e0 4c 8b
6d e8
[   12.252603] RIP  [<ffffffff81311178>] fb_mmap+0x58/0x1d0
[   12.252608]  RSP <ffff880078e8fd88>
[   12.252611] CR2: 00000000000003b8
[   12.252616] ---[ end trace 381165bafe65d748 ]---