[Letux-kernel] New LetuxOS Kernels - strcmp(NULL)

[Andreas Kemnade]

On Sun, 24 Jun 2018 09:52:53 +0200
"H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns at goldelico.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> > Am 24.06.2018 um 09:11 schrieb Andreas Kemnade <andreas at kemnade.info>:
> > 
> > On Sat, 23 Jun 2018 12:13:11 +0200
> > "H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns at goldelico.com> wrote:
> > 
> >   
> >> 
> >> So the issue is that "backlight_pins_pinmux" are searched for a NULL record before they
> >> are properly stored. Or someone punches a NULL into the radix_tree.
> >> 
> >> Hope this sheds some new light on the problem.
> >>   
> > hmm, the next question is whether the NULL is *always* there, so even
> > in the successful boots. Is that still with mainline  sources + minimal
> > set of things?
> > 
> > Can we infer any bad order of module loading from that output?
> > Probably the thing that inserts the NULL should be loaded last for
> > successful boots or first for failed boots
> > 
> > Or should we remove stuff from dtb piece by piece to see if that helps?  
> 
> The problem is that you can remove almost anything and "it helps". So
> it is very fragile to have a system that runs into this bug. If
> you change a little piece, the problem disappears but you don't know if
> it is really the reason or just a factor that enables/disables the real
> problem to appear/disappear.

I think we can do it the other way round. Removing drivers stuff which
does not disable the problem and consider them not guilty. 


> 
> For example you can blackist some modules and it is gone. You

What do you mean: it is gone? How many times do you test to consider it
gone? 


The next question is whether we need really that much concurrency here.
Can we do:

create_random_list_of_modules
log that list
while(not_everything_loaded) {
  insmod first_module_in_list.ko && remove_module_from_list
  sleep ?
}

will we get some pattern? Or maybe just get a full list of drivers
which needs not to be loaded to enable the problem.

> 
> Main suspect is the generic-adc-battery driver (although I remember to have seen the
> strcmp(NULL) once even when blackisting it).
> 
> The reason why it is the my main suspect is that the message iio_charge:-747
> seems to almost always come before platform backlight: Retrying from deferred list
> (AFAIR in failing and non-failing cases).
> 
> But they did not yet confess :)
> 
> And not to forget: they may still be innocent (if my latest theory is wrong)...
> 
> So I'd suggest to play around with the generic-adc-battery module/driver/dtb.
> 
ok, module blacklisted. Will boot that setup the whole afternoon.

Regards,
Andreas
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