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i2c: Fix userspace_device list corruption
authorJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:22:33 +0000 (09:22 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Tue, 8 Dec 2009 18:22:39 +0000 (10:22 -0800)
commit95c2fff142fd3d44ba55cd6b3d9758c3215b52ca
treecf035a5051317048d2d7c224419b7139cab7e45a
parentd02b2ced79e2a22b38d6a4fdc758d070ff807d2b
i2c: Fix userspace_device list corruption

commit bbd2d9c9198c6efd449e9d395b3eaf2d03aa3bba upstream.

Fix userspace_device list corruption. The corruption was caused by
clients not being removed when adapters with such clients were
themselves removed. Something like the following would trigger it
(assuming i2c-stub gets adapter number 3):

# modprobe i2c-stub chip_addr=0x50
# echo 24c08 0x50 > /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-3/new_device
# rmmod i2c-stub
# modprobe i2c-stub chip_addr=0x50
# echo 24c08 0x50 > /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-3/new_device

For the records, the stack trace in the kernel logs look like this:

kernel: WARNING: at lib/list_debug.c:30 __list_add+0x8b/0x90()
kernel: Hardware name: (...)
kernel: list_add corruption. prev->next should be next (c137fc84), but was (null). (prev=f57111b8).
kernel: Modules linked in: (...)
kernel: Pid: 4669, comm: bash Not tainted 2.6.32-rc8 #259
kernel: Call Trace:
kernel:  [<c111eb8b>] ? __list_add+0x8b/0x90
kernel:  [<c111eb8b>] ? __list_add+0x8b/0x90
kernel:  [<c103265c>] warn_slowpath_common+0x6c/0xc0
kernel:  [<c111eb8b>] ? __list_add+0x8b/0x90
kernel:  [<c10326f6>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x26/0x30
kernel:  [<c111eb8b>] __list_add+0x8b/0x90
kernel:  [<c11ba165>] i2c_sysfs_new_device+0x1c5/0x250
kernel:  [<c10861be>] ? might_fault+0x2e/0x80
kernel:  [<c11b9fa0>] ? i2c_sysfs_new_device+0x0/0x250
kernel:  [<c118c625>] dev_attr_store+0x25/0x30
kernel:  [<c10e305c>] sysfs_write_file+0x9c/0xf0
kernel:  [<c109d35c>] vfs_write+0x9c/0x160
kernel:  [<c10e2fc0>] ? sysfs_write_file+0x0/0xf0
kernel:  [<c109d4dd>] sys_write+0x3d/0x70
kernel:  [<c1002ed8>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x36

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c