[PATCH] mxcmmc: Internal error: Oops: 17 [#1] ARM from sg->offset

[Chris Ruehl]

On Wednesday, January 22, 2014 03:23 PM, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 03:19:48PM +0800, Chris Ruehl wrote:
>> On Wednesday, January 22, 2014 02:42 PM, Sascha Hauer wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 12:32:39PM +0800, Chris Ruehl wrote:
>>>> Function mxcmci_request() throw an exception on a imx27 cpu.
>>>> This patch fix the problem by test the pointer before access it.
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/mmc/host/mxcmmc.c b/drivers/mmc/host/mxcmmc.c
>>>> index f7199c8..8645d6a 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/mmc/host/mxcmmc.c
>>>> +++ b/drivers/mmc/host/mxcmmc.c
>>>> @@ -347,7 +347,7 @@ static int mxcmci_setup_data(struct mxcmci_host *host, struct mmc_data *data)
>>>>   		return 0;
>>>>   	for_each_sg(data->sg, sg, data->sg_len, i) {
>>>> -		if (sg->offset & 3 || sg->length & 3 || sg->length < 512) {
>>>> +		if (sg && (sg->offset & 3 || sg->length & 3 || sg->length < 512)) {
>>> The question is why sg is NULL. I think this shouldn't happen.
>>>
>>> Sascha
>>>
>> Thats was my idea too. But had no time to debug it out.
>> As for_each_sg() iterate over the sg-list may its not set properly
>> before - In an earlier post
>> I ask for help but no-one returned so I quick fixed it.  Maybe now
>> the bell is loud enough ;-)
> Please try to track it further down. Does this happen every time you are
> in this function or does it happen only every once in a while? Does it
> happen in the first iteration of the loop? is it an SDIO card or regular
> SD card?
>
> Sascha
>
Sascha,

there was a fix for a race condition:

commit 70aa6109597ea6955a93f16430b588b5ee5ba547
mmc: mxcmmc: fix race conditions for host->req and host->data access

do you think its possible that the current oops is kind of race?


Regards
Chris