This warning was recently reported to me:
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WARNING: at lib/kobject.c:595 kobject_put+0x50/0x60()
Hardware name: VMware Virtual Platform
kobject: '(null)' (ffff880027b0df40): is not initialized, yet kobject_put() is
being called.
Modules linked in: vmxnet3(+) vmw_balloon i2c_piix4 i2c_core shpchp raid10
vmw_pvscsi
Pid: 630, comm: modprobe Tainted: G W 3.1.6-1.fc16.x86_64 #1
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff8106b73f>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0
[<ffffffff8106b836>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x46/0x50
[<ffffffff810da293>] ? free_desc+0x63/0x70
[<ffffffff812a9aa0>] kobject_put+0x50/0x60
[<ffffffff812e4c25>] free_msi_irqs+0xd5/0x120
[<ffffffff812e524c>] pci_enable_msi_block+0x24c/0x2c0
[<ffffffffa017c273>] vmxnet3_alloc_intr_resources+0x173/0x240 [vmxnet3]
[<ffffffffa0182e94>] vmxnet3_probe_device+0x615/0x834 [vmxnet3]
[<ffffffff812d141c>] local_pci_probe+0x5c/0xd0
[<ffffffff812d2cb9>] pci_device_probe+0x109/0x130
[<ffffffff8138ba2c>] driver_probe_device+0x9c/0x2b0
[<ffffffff8138bceb>] __driver_attach+0xab/0xb0
[<ffffffff8138bc40>] ? driver_probe_device+0x2b0/0x2b0
[<ffffffff8138bc40>] ? driver_probe_device+0x2b0/0x2b0
[<ffffffff8138a8ac>] bus_for_each_dev+0x5c/0x90
[<ffffffff8138b63e>] driver_attach+0x1e/0x20
[<ffffffff8138b240>] bus_add_driver+0x1b0/0x2a0
[<ffffffffa0188000>] ? 0xffffffffa0187fff
[<ffffffff8138c246>] driver_register+0x76/0x140
[<ffffffff815ca414>] ? printk+0x51/0x53
[<ffffffffa0188000>] ? 0xffffffffa0187fff
[<ffffffff812d2996>] __pci_register_driver+0x56/0xd0
[<ffffffffa018803a>] vmxnet3_init_module+0x3a/0x3c [vmxnet3]
[<ffffffff81002042>] do_one_initcall+0x42/0x180
[<ffffffff810aad71>] sys_init_module+0x91/0x200
[<ffffffff815dccc2>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
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Using INTx interrupt, #Rx queues: 1.
It occurs when populate_msi_sysfs fails, which in turn causes free_msi_irqs to
be called. Because populate_msi_sysfs fails, we never registered any of the
msi irq sysfs objects, but free_msi_irqs still calls kobject_del and kobject_put
on each of them, which gets flagged in the above stack trace.
The fix is pretty straightforward. We can key of the parent pointer in the
kobject. It is only set if the kobject_init_and_add succededs in
populate_msi_sysfs. If anything fails there, each kobject has its parent reset
to NULL
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
CC: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
CC: linux-pci@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
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