Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ehci: Ensure that device is not NULL before calling usb_ep_get

[Guenter Roeck]

On 8/2/19 7:11 AM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 01:08:50PM +0200, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> > On 7/30/19 7:45 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > > The following assert is seen once in a while while resetting the
> > > Linux kernel.
> > >
> > > qemu-system-x86_64: hw/usb/core.c:734: usb_ep_get:
> > >         Assertion `dev != NULL' failed.
> > >
> > > The call to usb_ep_get() originates from ehci_execute().
> > > Analysis and debugging shows that p->queue->dev can indeed be NULL
> > > in this function. Add check for this condition and return an error
> > > if it is seen.
> >
> > Your patch is not wrong as it corrects your case, but I wonder why we
> > get there. This assert seems to have catched a bug.
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com//show_bug.cgi?id=1715801 maybe.
>
> > Gerd, shouldn't we call usb_packet_cleanup() in ehci_reset() rather than
> > ehci_finalize()? Then we shouldn't need this patch.
>
> The two ehci_queues_rip_all() calls in ehci_reset() should clean up everything
> properly.
>
> Can you try the patch below to see whenever a ehci_find_device failure is the
> root cause?
>
> thanks,
>    Gerd
>
> diff --git a/hw/usb/hcd-ehci.c b/hw/usb/hcd-ehci.c
> index 62dab0592fa2..2b0a57772ed5 100644
> --- a/hw/usb/hcd-ehci.c
> +++ b/hw/usb/hcd-ehci.c
> @@ -1644,6 +1644,10 @@ static EHCIQueue *ehci_state_fetchqh(EHCIState *ehci, 
> int async)
>           q->dev = ehci_find_device(q->ehci,
>                                     get_field(q->qh.epchar, QH_EPCHAR_DEVADDR));
>       }
> +    if (q->dev == NULL) {
> +        fprintf(stderr, "%s: device %d not found\n", __func__,
> +                get_field(q->qh.epchar, QH_EPCHAR_DEVADDR));
> +    }
>   
Turns out I end up seeing that message hundreds of times early on each boot,
no matter which architecture. It is quite obviously a normal operating 
condition.

Guenter