If configs UEVENT_HELPER_PATH [=/sbin/mdev](/sbin/mdev belongs to busybox),
the kernel may trigger oops and kill progress "mdev" when booting.
The reason is when the init progress is calling do_one_initcall(),devices
will be added and trigger /sbin/mdev to execute(in order to make device
nodes automatically),then /sbin/mdev will call SyS_futex().But when
SyS_futex() visit the global variable futex_queues,it maynot be
initalized yet at this time.
Ahead futex_init from __initcall to core_initcall will make sure
futex_queues is always initalized before the /sbin/mdev executes.
See oops below on arm CPU SABER.
The bug maynot occur due to different race conditions on different CPUs.
But it has a chance to occur by using QUME simulating x86 CPU with
kernel linux-4.10-rc1.
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual
address 00000000 pgd = ed100000
[00000000] *pgd=8e0b1831, *pte=00000000, *ppte=00000000
Internal error: Oops: 17 [#1] ARM
Modules linked in:
task: ed08b080 ti: ed0ea000 task.ti: ed0ea000
PC is at futex_wake+0x58/0x11c
LR is at futex_wake+0x48/0x11c
pc : [<c004baac>] lr : [<c004ba9c>] psr: a0000213
sp : ed0ebe98 ip : bec10000 fp : ed0ebecc
r10: 00000000 r9 : 00000001 r8 : 00000000
r7 : c088e700 r6 : ffffffff r5 : 00000001 r4 : 00008114
r3 : 00000000 r2 : c088e700 r1 : 34a81583 r0 : fffffff4
Flags: NzCv IRQs on FIQs on Mode SVC_32 ISA ARM Segment user
Control: 12c53c7d Table: 8e100059 DAC: 00000015
Process mdev (pid: 225, stack limit = 0xed0ea1b0)
Backtrace:
[<c004ba54>] (futex_wake+0x0/0x11c) from [<c004d3dc>]
[<c004d2b8>] (do_futex+0x0/0x870) from [<c004dbb0>]
[<c004db28>] (SyS_futex+0x0/0x16c) from [<c0009240>]
Code: e1a07000 e5903000 e1500003 e243000c (e5934000)
Signed-off-by: Yang Yang <yang.yan...@zte.com.cn>
---
kernel/futex.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c
index 0842c8c..cdf3650 100755
--- a/kernel/futex.c
+++ b/kernel/futex.c
@@ -3323,4 +3323,4 @@ static int __init futex_init(void)
return 0;
}
-__initcall(futex_init);
+core_initcall(futex_init);
--
1.7.1
