The 3215 console always has the RAW3215_FIXED flag set, which causes
raw3215_shutdown() not to wait for outstanding I/O requests if an attached
tty gets closed.
The flag however can be simply removed, so we can guarantee that all requests
belonging to the tty have been processed when the tty is closed.
However the tasklet that belongs to the 3215 device may be scheduled even if
there is no tty attached anymore, since we have a race between console and tty
processing.
Thefore unconditional tty_wakekup() in raw3215_wakeup() can cause the following
NULL pointer dereference:
3.465368 Unable to handle kernel pointer dereference at virtual kernel address (null)
3.465448 Oops: 0004 #1 SMP
3.465454 Modules linked in:
3.465459 CPU: 1 Not tainted 3.6.0 #1
3.465462 Process swapper/1 (pid: 0, task: 000000003ffa4428, ksp: 000000003ffb7ce0)
3.465466 Krnl PSW : 0404100180000000 0000000000162f86 (__wake_up+0x46/0xb8)
3.465480 R:0 T:1 IO:0 EX:0 Key:0 M:1 W:0 P:0 AS:0 CC:1 PM:0 EA:3
Krnl GPRS: fffffffffffffffe 0000000000000000 0000000000000160 0000000000000001
3.465492 0000000000000001 0000000000000004 0000000000000004 000000000096b490
3.465499 0000000000000001 0000000000000100 0000000000000001 0000000000000001
3.465506 070000003fc87d60 0000000000000160 000000003fc87d68 000000003fc87d00
3.465526 Krnl Code: 0000000000162f76: e3c0f0a80004 lg %r12,168(%r15)
0000000000162f7c: 58000370 l %r0,880
#0000000000162f80: c007ffffffff00 xilf %r0,4294967295
>0000000000162f86: ba102000 cs %r1,%r0,0(%r2)
0000000000162f8a: 1211 ltr %r1,%r1
0000000000162f8c: a774002f brc 7,162fea
0000000000162f90: b904002d lgr %r2,%r13
0000000000162f94: b904003a lgr %r3,%r10
3.465597 Call Trace:
3.465599 (<0400000000000000> 0x400000000000000)
3.465602 <000000000048c77e> raw3215_wakeup+0x2e/0x40
3.465607 <0000000000134d66> tasklet_action+0x96/0x168
3.465612 <000000000013423c> __do_softirq+0xd8/0x21c
3.465615 <0000000000134678> irq_exit+0xa8/0xac
3.465617 <000000000046c232> do_IRQ+0x182/0x248
3.465621 <00000000005c8296> io_return+0x0/0x8
3.465625 <00000000005c7cac> vtime_stop_cpu+0x4c/0xb8
3.465629 (<0000000000194e06> tick_nohz_idle_enter+0x4e/0x74)
3.465633 <0000000000104760> cpu_idle+0x170/0x184
3.465636 <00000000005b5182> smp_start_secondary+0xd6/0xe0
3.465641 <00000000005c86be> restart_int_handler+0x56/0x6c
3.465643 <0000000000000000> 0x0
3.465645 Last Breaking-Event-Address:
3.465647 <0000000000403136> tty_wakeup+0x46/0x98
3.465652
3.465654 Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt
01: HCPGIR450W CP entered; disabled wait PSW 00020001 80000000 00000000 0010F63C
The easiest solution is simply to check if tty is NULL in the tasklet.
If it is NULL nothing is to do (no tty attached), otherwise tty_wakeup()
can be called, since we hold a reference to the tty.
This is not nice... but it is a small patch and it works.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>