From: Andrea Righi Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 21:13:29 +0000 (-0700) Subject: kfifo: fix kernel BUG in dma example X-Git-Url: http://git.cdn.openwrt.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7b34d5257a90c419d67c1c3b52f87a679845ef1e;p=openwrt%2Fstaging%2Fblogic.git kfifo: fix kernel BUG in dma example The scatterlist is used uninitialized in kfifo_dma_in_prepare(). This triggers the following bug if CONFIG_DEBUG_SG=y: ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at include/linux/scatterlist.h:65! invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP ... Call Trace: [] setup_sgl+0x6b/0xe0 [] ? example_init+0x0/0x265 [dma_example] [] __kfifo_dma_in_prepare+0x21/0x30 [] example_init+0x124/0x265 [dma_example] [] ? trace_module_notify+0x25/0x370 [] ? free_pages_prepare+0x11e/0x1e0 [] ? get_parent_ip+0x11/0x50 [] ? trace_module_notify+0x25/0x370 [] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0x10 [] ? mutex_unlock+0xe/0x10 [] ? trace_module_notify+0x41/0x370 [] ? __blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x45/0x80 [] ? vfree+0x2a/0x30 [] ? up_read+0x23/0x40 [] ? __blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x65/0x80 [] do_one_initcall+0x43/0x180 [] sys_init_module+0xba/0x200 [] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b RIP [] setup_sgl_buf+0x1a1/0x1b0 RSP ---[ end trace a72b979fd3c1d3a5 ]--- Add the proper initialization to avoid the bug. Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi Acked-by: Stefani Seibold Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/samples/kfifo/dma-example.c b/samples/kfifo/dma-example.c index b9482c28b41a..03433ca5bdad 100644 --- a/samples/kfifo/dma-example.c +++ b/samples/kfifo/dma-example.c @@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ static int __init example_init(void) printk(KERN_INFO "queue len: %u\n", kfifo_len(&fifo)); + sg_init_table(sg, ARRAY_SIZE(sg)); ret = kfifo_dma_in_prepare(&fifo, sg, ARRAY_SIZE(sg), FIFO_SIZE); printk(KERN_INFO "DMA sgl entries: %d\n", ret);