Created attachment 273997 [details] Patch that replaces the NULL Seeing the oops below with the pvrusb2 driver: [SNIP] Jan 30 04:43:59 bananapi kernel: pvrusb2: Attached sub-driver tuner Jan 30 04:44:01 bananapi kernel: cx25840 2-0044: loaded v4l-cx25840.fw firmware (16382 bytes) Jan 30 04:44:02 bananapi kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000018 Jan 30 04:44:02 bananapi kernel: pgd = c0204000 Jan 30 04:44:02 bananapi kernel: [00000018] *pgd=00000000 Message from syslogd@bananapi at Jan 30 04:44:03 ... kernel:Internal error: Oops: 5 [#1] SMP ARM Jan 30 04:44:03 bananapi kernel: Internal error: Oops: 5 [#1] SMP ARM [SNIP] Jan 30 04:44:03 bananapi kernel: CPU: 1 PID: 824 Comm: pvrusb2-context Tainted: G C E 4.9.75-204.el7.centos.armv7hl #1 Jan 30 04:44:03 bananapi kernel: Hardware name: Allwinner sun7i (A20) Family Jan 30 04:44:03 bananapi kernel: task: c7d48000 task.stack: c7f00000 Jan 30 04:44:03 bananapi kernel: PC is at tveeprom_hauppauge_analog+0x6d8/0x9c0 [tveeprom] Jan 30 04:44:03 bananapi kernel: LR is at tveeprom_hauppauge_analog+0x58/0x9c0 [tveeprom] Jan 30 04:44:03 bananapi kernel: pc : [<bf4746d8>] lr : [<bf474058>] psr: 60000013#012sp : c7f01d88 ip : bf476c2b fp : 000000f0 Jan 30 04:44:03 bananapi kernel: r10: 00000000 r9 : 00000025 r8 : bf4769fe Jan 30 04:44:03 bananapi kernel: r7 : 0000009b r6 : 00000000 r5 : bf475d5c r4 : c7f01e4c Jan 30 04:44:03 bananapi kernel: r3 : 00000008 r2 : 00000000 r1 : 00012567 r0 : 00000000 Jan 30 04:44:03 bananapi kernel: Flags: nZCv IRQs on FIQs on Mode SVC_32 ISA ARM Segment none Jan 30 04:44:03 bananapi kernel: Control: 10c5387d Table: 47d2806a DAC: 00000051 [SNIP] Problem is being caused by NULL being passed in : drivers/media/usb/pvrusb2/pvrusb2-eeprom.c: tveeprom_hauppauge_analog(NULL, &tvdata, eeprom); I have tested the attached patch, which resolves the issue by replacing the NULL. Thanks.
Just to complete chris' report, the whole discussion starts here https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/arm-dev/2018-February/003212.html Cliff notes: 4.4 and 4.9 got commit https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/commit/drivers/media/usb/pvrusb2/pvrusb2-eeprom.c?h=v4.9.80&id=374aceef5912f3438a1cc582a2007551f0fbdb15 which is invalid without these: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/commit/drivers/media/common/tveeprom.c?id=7cda4c5bae46ffca3abeadc4c1882d9325ee3102 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/commit/drivers/media/common/tveeprom.c?id=6037b3ca28f4258d913dbe77248fd77827702ae3
I think I see the problem: When I did commit 6830733d53a4 ("[media] pvrusb2: reduce stack usage pvr2_eeprom_analyze()") for v4.11, I verified that it was correct. However, that analysis depended on Mauro's commit 6037b3ca28f4 ("[media] tveeprom: print log messages using pr_foo()"), which was merged in 4.10. When my patch got backported to v4.9, that assumption was broken. Can you verify after applying commit 6037b3ca28f4? Backporting that to stable as well should be straightforward, if Greg doesn't think it's excessively large.
Chris has already tested that reverting your patch works by rebuilding only the module, so that part is confirmed. I don't have the hardware to test this, so it'll have to be Chris. Chris, can you try what Arnd said? Instead of reverting the first patch, applying the last two?
I have tested both commits to tveeprom.c, the first patch failed (7cda4c5bae46ffca3abeadc4c1882d9325ee3102): patching file tveeprom.c Hunk #3 FAILED at 496. Hunk #4 succeeded at 648 (offset 1 line). Hunk #5 succeeded at 668 (offset 1 line). Hunk #6 succeeded at 704 (offset 1 line). Hunk #7 succeeded at 759 (offset 1 line). 1 out of 7 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file tveeprom.c.rej The failure was because: - tveeprom_warn("Encountered bad packet header [%02x]. Corrupt or not a Hauppauge eeprom.\n", Should be the below (it is split in to two lines, not a single line): - tveeprom_warn("Encountered bad packet header [%02x]. " - "Corrupt or not a Hauppauge eeprom.\n", I have attached the .rej file for reference of the failed hunk. However, after making the manual edits above, and re-compiling just tveeprom.c, the changes seem to be working fine with this kernel. Please let me know if I can be of further help. Thank you.
Created attachment 274007 [details] Failed hunk from patch
Created attachment 274009 [details] backported 7cda4c5bae46ffca3abeadc4c1882d9325ee3102 Chris, please use this patch as the first link (7cda4c5bae46ffca3abeadc4c1882d9325ee3102), the second one applies cleanly
Pablo, Confirmed... the patch works here too, and second one as well.
I forgot this commit which should have been applied first (https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=2a3edc5d55c23ee7e2c7fa662ac76cc41863c7a4), which is why that hunk failed.