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Message ID 20120818144039.0356cc7c@neptune.home (mailing list archive)
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Delegated to: Jiri Kosina
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Bruno Prémont Aug. 18, 2012, 12:40 p.m. UTC
Hi Jiri,

[CCing Alan Stern]

On Thu, 16 August 2012 Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Aug 2012, Bruno Prémont wrote:
> 
> > > I don't really understand this explanation. Once usb_kill_urb() returns, 
> > > the URB should be available for future use (and therefore all queues 
> > > completely drained).
> > 
> > I won't have time today to check, though my guess is that on each
> > echo $usb-id > bind; echo $usb-id > unbind
> > under /sys/bus/hid/drivers/hid-picolcd/ the USB urb queue fills a bit does
> > not get cleared.
> > 
> > Is usb_kill_urb() called when unbinding just the specific hid driver? 
> 
> Yup, through hid_hw_stop() -> usbhid_stop().
> 
> > If so my short timing between bind/unbind must be triggering something 
> > else...
> > 
> > Otherwise I'm missing something as at first time I got no "output queue full"
> > messages, but as I repeated the bind/unbind sequences the prints per bind/unbind
> > iteration increased in number.
> > 
> > Anyhow, on Friday evening/week-end I will continue digging and report back with my
> > findings.

Huh, after changing some of the hid-picolcd data in order to have less racy
coupling between hid and framebuffer I'm now dying way too often in _mmx_memcpy
and most of the time I don't get a (complete) trace...

The only full trace I got was:
[ 3857.426136] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at dbdf9000
[ 3857.432555] IP: [<c11e2be7>] _mmx_memcpy+0x27/0x16c
[ 3857.435906] *pde = 1bebb063 *pte = 1bdf9161 
[ 3857.435906] Oops: 0003 [#1] 
[ 3857.435906] Modules linked in: hid_picolcd fb_sys_fops sysimgblt sysfillrect syscopyarea drm_kms_helper nfs3 nfs_acl nfs lockd sunrpc
[ 3857.435906] Pid: 1935, comm: bash Not tainted 3.6.0-rc1-jupiter-00363-g0e8ccbc #1 NVIDIA Corporation. nFORCE-MCP/MS-6373
[ 3857.435906] EIP: 0060:[<c11e2be7>] EFLAGS: 00010013 CPU: 0
[ 3857.435906] EIP is at _mmx_memcpy+0x27/0x16c
[ 3857.435906] EAX: dd40a000 EBX: dd6ea010 ECX: 035af77b EDX: dbdf4230
[ 3857.435906] ESI: dbe0d1b0 EDI: dbdf9000 EBP: dd40bea8 ESP: dd40be8c
[ 3857.435906]  DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 0000 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068
[ 3857.435906] CR0: 8005003b CR2: dbdf9000 CR3: 1d7ee000 CR4: 000007d0
[ 3857.435906] DR0: 00000000 DR1: 00000000 DR2: 00000000 DR3: 00000000
[ 3857.435906] DR6: ffff0ff0 DR7: 00000400
[ 3857.435906] Process bash (pid: 1935, ti=dd40a000 task=dcdb6120 task.ti=dbce2000)
[ 3857.435906] Stack:
[ 3857.435906]  0d6d6d6f dd6eb49c dd40beb8 dbde0080 dd6ea010 dbde0080 dbd31010 dd40bed0
[ 3857.435906]  c133b364 00000000 00000000 ddfaa0e0 dbd31010 dbdf4230 dd6ea010 00000046
[ 3857.435906]  dbd31010 dd40bef0 c133bea0 00000000 dbd0c3f0 00000000 dbd0c3f0 00000000
[ 3857.435906] Call Trace:
[ 3857.435906]  [<c133b364>] hid_submit_out+0xa4/0x130
[ 3857.435906]  [<c133bea0>] hid_irq_out+0xa0/0x100
[ 3857.435906]  [<c12e425e>] usb_hcd_giveback_urb+0x4e/0x90
[ 3857.435906]  [<c12f9bd2>] finish_urb+0xb2/0xf0
[ 3857.435906]  [<c12fa67d>] takeback_td+0x3d/0x100
[ 3857.435906]  [<c12faccf>] dl_done_list+0x14f/0x180
[ 3857.435906]  [<c12fc351>] ohci_irq+0x191/0x300
[ 3857.435906]  [<c1077790>] ? unmask_irq+0x20/0x20
[ 3857.435906]  [<c12e3ace>] usb_hcd_irq+0x1e/0x40
[ 3857.435906]  [<c107549d>] handle_irq_event_percpu+0x6d/0x1c0
[ 3857.435906]  [<c1077790>] ? unmask_irq+0x20/0x20
[ 3857.435906]  [<c1075618>] handle_irq_event+0x28/0x40
[ 3857.435906]  [<c107781a>] handle_fasteoi_irq+0x8a/0xe0
[ 3857.435906]  <IRQ> 
[ 3857.435906]  [<c1003e0a>] ? do_IRQ+0x3a/0xb0
[ 3857.435906]  [<c140c870>] ? common_interrupt+0x30/0x38
[ 3857.435906]  [<c1035143>] ? __do_softirq+0x53/0x1c0
[ 3857.435906]  [<c10350f0>] ? local_bh_enable_ip+0x80/0x80
[ 3857.435906]  <IRQ> 
[ 3857.435906]  [<c103544e>] ? irq_exit+0x3e/0xa0
[ 3857.435906]  [<c101dfde>] ? smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x6e/0x80
[ 3857.435906]  [<c140bee1>] ? apic_timer_interrupt+0x31/0x38
[ 3857.435906]  [<c102fdba>] ? vprintk_emit+0x34a/0x390
[ 3857.435906]  [<c1409f58>] ? printk+0x38/0x3a
[ 3857.435906]  [<de94b021>] ? picolcd_init_framebuffer+0x261/0x350 [hid_picolcd]
[ 3857.435906]  [<de949bd1>] ? picolcd_probe+0x3d1/0x5a0 [hid_picolcd]
[ 3857.435906]  [<c13321f7>] ? hid_device_probe+0x67/0xf0
[ 3857.435906]  [<c128ac17>] ? driver_sysfs_add+0x57/0x80
[ 3857.435906]  [<c128af1d>] ? driver_probe_device+0xbd/0x1d0
[ 3857.435906]  [<c1331aab>] ? hid_match_device+0x7b/0x90
[ 3857.435906]  [<c1289e65>] ? driver_bind+0x75/0xd0
[ 3857.435906]  [<c1289df0>] ? driver_unbind+0x90/0x90
[ 3857.435906]  [<c1289537>] ? drv_attr_store+0x27/0x30
[ 3857.435906]  [<c111a59c>] ? sysfs_write_file+0xac/0xf0
[ 3857.435906]  [<c10cca0c>] ? vfs_write+0x9c/0x130
[ 3857.435906]  [<c10da2ef>] ? sys_dup3+0x11f/0x160
[ 3857.435906]  [<c111a4f0>] ? sysfs_poll+0x90/0x90
[ 3857.435906]  [<c10ccc7d>] ? sys_write+0x3d/0x70
[ 3857.435906]  [<c140c357>] ? sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x26
[ 3857.435906] Code: 90 90 90 90 55 89 e5 57 56 89 d6 53 83 ec 10 89 45 f0 89 4d e4 89 e0 25 00 e0 ff ff f7 40 14 00 ff ff 07 74 17 c1 e9 02 8b 7d f0 <f3> a5 8b 4d e4 83 e1 03 74 02 f3 a4 e9 27 01 00 00 8b 45 1
[ 3857.435906] EIP: [<c11e2be7>] _mmx_memcpy+0x27/0x16c SS:ESP 0068:dd40be8c
[ 3857.435906] CR2: 00000000dbdf9000
[ 3857.435906] ---[ end trace 10ae520e65e3b763 ]---
[ 3857.435906] Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt

It happens around the time of calling
  device_create_file(dev, &dev_attr_fb_update_rate);
that is, after picolcd_fb_reset(data, 1) has returned but before
calling fb_deferred_io_init(info); according to printk() I put
around the various calls in picolcd_init_framebuffer().

The other case I got part of a trace it was again in _mmx_memcpy()
but the trace output stopped in the middle of register dumping.


The full trace happened after the following sequence:
- system boot
- hotplug of picolcd (triggering modprobe hid-picolcd)
- cd /sys/bus/hid/drivers/hid-picolcd/
- echo 0003:04D8:C002.0003 > unbind
- wait some time
- echo 0003:04D8:C002.0003 > bind

Any idea what it could be? It might be during processing of first
reports send in order to clear the picolcd display.




As (un)binding in hid-picolcd crashes I tried doing so a level above,
at usbhid driver on usb bus which resulted in the following:
- system boot
- hotplug of picolcd (triggering modprobe hid-picolcd)
- cd /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usbhid/
- echo 2-1:1.0 > unbind
- wait some time
- echo 2-1:1.0 > bind
- wait some time
- echo 2-1:1.0 > unbind
produced the following trace:
[ 1418.387466] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000030
[ 1418.390013] IP: [<c1339c40>] hid_submit_ctrl+0x80/0x2a0
[ 1418.390013] *pde = 00000000 
[ 1418.390013] Oops: 0002 [#1] 
[ 1418.390013] Modules linked in: hid_picolcd fb_sys_fops sysimgblt sysfillrect syscopyarea drm_kms_helper nfs3 nfs_acl nfs lockd sunrpc
[ 1418.390013] Pid: 1994, comm: kworker/0:0 Not tainted 3.6.0-rc1-jupiter-00363-g0e8ccbc #1 NVIDIA Corporation. nFORCE-MCP/MS-6373
[ 1418.390013] EIP: 0060:[<c1339c40>] EFLAGS: 00010086 CPU: 0
[ 1418.390013] EIP is at hid_submit_ctrl+0x80/0x2a0
[ 1418.390013] EAX: 80000200 EBX: dc2d0000 ECX: dcfe2020 EDX: 00000000
[ 1418.390013] ESI: 00000040 EDI: dc1f8f00 EBP: dd743e2c ESP: dd743df4
[ 1418.390013]  DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 0000 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068
[ 1418.390013] CR0: 8005003b CR2: 00000030 CR3: 1cd42000 CR4: 000007d0
[ 1418.390013] DR0: 00000000 DR1: 00000000 DR2: 00000000 DR3: 00000000
[ 1418.390013] DR6: ffff0ff0 DR7: 00000400
[ 1418.390013] Process kworker/0:0 (pid: 1994, ti=dd742000 task=dcdd0d40 task.ti=dd742000)
[ 1418.390013] Stack:
[ 1418.390013]  0000003e dc2f9020 dcf64c7c 00000005 00000002 dd743e1c 00000002 dc1f8f00
[ 1418.390013]  00000040 dcfe2020 dc2cb4d0 dc2d0000 00000000 dcfe2020 dd743e44 c1339ef6
[ 1418.390013]  00000008 dc2d0000 dc2cb4d0 dcfe2020 dd743e74 c133bbeb 00000023 000000ff
[ 1418.390013] Call Trace:
[ 1418.390013]  [<c1339ef6>] usbhid_restart_ctrl_queue+0x96/0xe0
[ 1418.390013]  [<c133bbeb>] __usbhid_submit_report+0x29b/0x320
[ 1418.390013]  [<c1330200>] ? hid_parser_local+0x260/0x2d0
[ 1418.390013]  [<c133bd2b>] usbhid_submit_report+0x1b/0x30
[ 1418.390013]  [<de996cb9>] picolcd_fb_deferred_io+0x3b9/0x4c0 [hid_picolcd]
[ 1418.390013]  [<c120e118>] fb_deferred_io_work+0x78/0xc0
[ 1418.390013]  [<c1045e3f>] process_one_work+0x1ff/0x380
[ 1418.390013]  [<c120e0a0>] ? fb_deferred_io_fault+0xa0/0xa0
[ 1418.390013]  [<c10467f7>] worker_thread+0x237/0x360
[ 1418.390013]  [<c10465c0>] ? manage_workers.clone.25+0x250/0x250
[ 1418.390013]  [<c10465c0>] ? manage_workers.clone.25+0x250/0x250
[ 1418.390013]  [<c104a30d>] kthread+0x6d/0x80
[ 1418.390013]  [<c104a2a0>] ? kthread_freezable_should_stop+0x70/0x70
[ 1418.390013]  [<c140c87e>] kernel_thread_helper+0x6/0xd
[ 1418.390013] Code: 01 89 45 e8 0f 85 91 00 00 00 8b 4d ec 8b 53 1c 8b 7d e4 8b 75 e8 8b 81 68 0c 00 00 8b 00 8b 40 9c c1 e0 08 0d 00 00 00 80 85 ff <89> 42 30 8b 43 1c 89 70 54 0f 84 19 01 00 00 81 fe ff 01 0
[ 1418.390013] EIP: [<c1339c40>] hid_submit_ctrl+0x80/0x2a0 SS:ESP 0068:dd743df4
[ 1418.390013] CR2: 0000000000000030
[ 1418.390013] ---[ end trace 089e20ed16261a0a ]---
pretty early during unbind process, e.g. way before picolcd even started to
dispose framebuffer.

Either I'm doing something really wrong or I'm the first one to produce
lots of outbound reports thus exploring corner-cases...

PS: attached is a diff between the hid-picolcd from this patch series to what
I'm testing right now.

Thanks,
Bruno

Comments

Alan Stern Aug. 18, 2012, 1:19 p.m. UTC | #1
On Sat, 18 Aug 2012, Bruno Prémont wrote:

> Hi Jiri,
> 
> [CCing Alan Stern]
> 
> On Thu, 16 August 2012 Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> wrote:
> > On Thu, 16 Aug 2012, Bruno Prémont wrote:
> > 
> > > > I don't really understand this explanation. Once usb_kill_urb() returns, 
> > > > the URB should be available for future use (and therefore all queues 
> > > > completely drained).
> > > 
> > > I won't have time today to check, though my guess is that on each
> > > echo $usb-id > bind; echo $usb-id > unbind
> > > under /sys/bus/hid/drivers/hid-picolcd/ the USB urb queue fills a bit does
> > > not get cleared.
> > > 
> > > Is usb_kill_urb() called when unbinding just the specific hid driver? 
> > 
> > Yup, through hid_hw_stop() -> usbhid_stop().
> > 
> > > If so my short timing between bind/unbind must be triggering something 
> > > else...
> > > 
> > > Otherwise I'm missing something as at first time I got no "output queue full"
> > > messages, but as I repeated the bind/unbind sequences the prints per bind/unbind
> > > iteration increased in number.
> > > 
> > > Anyhow, on Friday evening/week-end I will continue digging and report back with my
> > > findings.
> 
> Huh, after changing some of the hid-picolcd data in order to have less racy
> coupling between hid and framebuffer I'm now dying way too often in _mmx_memcpy
> and most of the time I don't get a (complete) trace...

There was a similar problem reported recently.  It turned out to be 
caused by a __devinitconst annotation attached to a usb_device_id 
table.

If there are any __devinit* annotations in the hid-picolcd driver, you 
should see if removing them helps.

Alan Stern

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Bruno Prémont Aug. 18, 2012, 1:48 p.m. UTC | #2
On Sat, 18 August 2012 Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Aug 2012, Bruno Prémont wrote:
> > On Thu, 16 August 2012 Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> wrote:
> > > On Thu, 16 Aug 2012, Bruno Prémont wrote:
> > > 
> > > > > I don't really understand this explanation. Once usb_kill_urb() returns, 
> > > > > the URB should be available for future use (and therefore all queues 
> > > > > completely drained).
> > > > 
> > > > I won't have time today to check, though my guess is that on each
> > > > echo $usb-id > bind; echo $usb-id > unbind
> > > > under /sys/bus/hid/drivers/hid-picolcd/ the USB urb queue fills a bit does
> > > > not get cleared.
> > > > 
> > > > Is usb_kill_urb() called when unbinding just the specific hid driver? 
> > > 
> > > Yup, through hid_hw_stop() -> usbhid_stop().
> > > 
> > > > If so my short timing between bind/unbind must be triggering something 
> > > > else...
> > > > 
> > > > Otherwise I'm missing something as at first time I got no "output queue full"
> > > > messages, but as I repeated the bind/unbind sequences the prints per bind/unbind
> > > > iteration increased in number.
> > > > 
> > > > Anyhow, on Friday evening/week-end I will continue digging and report back with my
> > > > findings.
> > 
> > Huh, after changing some of the hid-picolcd data in order to have less racy
> > coupling between hid and framebuffer I'm now dying way too often in _mmx_memcpy
> > and most of the time I don't get a (complete) trace...
> 
> There was a similar problem reported recently.  It turned out to be 
> caused by a __devinitconst annotation attached to a usb_device_id 
> table.
> 
> If there are any __devinit* annotations in the hid-picolcd driver, you 
> should see if removing them helps.

There is no such annotation around in hid-picolcd.


One thing I just though about, how does usbhid handle the calls to
usbhid_submit_report() when hid_hw_stop()/hid_hw_close() have already
been called?
I will attempt to see if it makes a difference to shortcut my
usbhid_submit_report() calls from the point on I have called hid_hw_close()...

Bruno
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Bruno Prémont Aug. 18, 2012, 6:49 p.m. UTC | #3
On Sat, 18 August 2012 Bruno Prémont <bonbons@linux-vserver.org> wrote:
> One thing I just though about, how does usbhid handle the calls to
> usbhid_submit_report() when hid_hw_stop()/hid_hw_close() have already
> been called?
> I will attempt to see if it makes a difference to shortcut my
> usbhid_submit_report() calls from the point on I have called hid_hw_close()...

I don't know if I'm progressing or just drawing circles...

I included a check right before calling usbhid_submit_report() to prevent
calling it if hid_hw_close()/hid_hw_stop() has been called and that part
works as expected, just that at some moment it explodes on a NULL-pointer
dereference.

Initially I had usbhid_submit_report macro:
#define usbhid_submit_report(a, b, c) \
        do { \
                picolcd_debug_out_report(d, a, b); \
                usbhid_submit_report(a, b, c); \
        } while (0)

Now to make sure no new reports get submitted once hid_hw_stop()
was called I changed it to:
#define usbhid_submit_report(a, b, c) \
        do { \
                struct picolcd_data *d = hid_get_drvdata(a); \
                unsigned long flags; \
                picolcd_debug_out_report(d, a, b); \
                spin_lock_irqsave(&d->lock, flags); \
                if (!(d->status & PICOLCD_FAILED)) \
                        usbhid_submit_report(a, b, c); \
                else \
                        printk(KERN_INFO "Submitting report after hw_stop!\n"); \
                spin_unlock_irqrestore(&d->lock, flags); \
        } while (0)
with the printk() to spam dmesg :)


The NULL-pointer dereference I got inside picolcd_fb_deferred_io() was due
to me calling hid_set_drvdata(hdev, NULL) too early in remove(), fixed.


But with that fixed I still encounter the bad page, probably around
the time of hid_hw_stop(), though it always takes the HARD LOCK watchdog
to trigger for the trace to show (probably because or IRQ context):

It seems to happen during the bind/unbind following the unbind that
produces a
     hid-picolcd 0003:04D8:C002.0003: usb_submit_urb(out) failed: -1
either a BUG or even as reboot and happend between hid_hw_close() and
hid_hw_stop() though my extra printks seem to reduce probability of
bad things to happen.


[ 1217.643017] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at c7cb0000
[ 1217.643017] IP: [<c11e2be7>] _mmx_memcpy+0x27/0x16c
[ 1217.643017] *pde = 19078063 *pte = 07cb0161 
[ 1217.643017] Oops: 0003 [#1] 
[ 1217.643017] Modules linked in: hid_picolcd fb_sys_fops sysimgblt sysfillrect syscopyarea drm_kms_helper nfs3 nfs_acl nfs lockd sunrpc
[ 1217.643017] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 3.6.0-rc2-jupiter-00008-gd3c2b0c-dirty #2 NVIDIA Corporation. nFORCE-MCP/MS-6373
[ 1217.643017] EIP: 0060:[<c11e2be7>] EFLAGS: 00010013 CPU: 0
[ 1217.643017] EIP is at _mmx_memcpy+0x27/0x16c
[ 1217.643017] EAX: dd40a000 EBX: dd6ea010 ECX: 035af77b EDX: d9108c80
[ 1217.643017] ESI: d9121c00 EDI: c7cb0000 EBP: dd40bebc ESP: dd40bea0
[ 1217.643017]  DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 0000 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068
[ 1217.643017] CR0: 8005003b CR2: c7cb0000 CR3: 1cf1c000 CR4: 000007d0
[ 1217.643017] DR0: 00000000 DR1: 00000000 DR2: 00000000 DR3: 00000000
[ 1217.643017] DR6: ffff0ff0 DR7: 00000400
[ 1217.643017] Process swapper (pid: 0, ti=dd40a000 task=c15d24c0 task.ti=c15c6000)
[ 1217.643017] Stack:
[ 1217.643017]  0d6d6d6f dd40beac c109bba4 c7c97080 dd6ea010 c7c97080 dceb3030 dd40bee4
[ 1217.643017]  c133b364 c7d40000 c7d40000 dd40bed4 dceb3030 d9108c80 dd6ea010 00000046
[ 1217.643017]  dceb3030 dd40bf04 c133bea0 0000d6d6 dbe901b0 fffffffe dbe901b0 fffffffe
[ 1217.643017] Call Trace:
[ 1217.643017]  [<c109bba4>] ? free_compound_page+0x14/0x20
[ 1217.643017]  [<c133b364>] hid_submit_out+0xa4/0x130
[ 1217.643017]  [<c133bea0>] hid_irq_out+0xa0/0x100
[ 1217.643017]  [<c12e425e>] usb_hcd_giveback_urb+0x4e/0x90
[ 1217.643017]  [<c12f9bd2>] finish_urb+0xb2/0xf0
[ 1217.643017]  [<c12fa8a8>] finish_unlinks+0x168/0x320
[ 1217.643017]  [<c12fc43f>] ohci_irq+0x27f/0x300
[ 1217.643017]  [<c1077790>] ? unmask_irq+0x20/0x20
[ 1217.643017]  [<c12e3ace>] usb_hcd_irq+0x1e/0x40
[ 1217.643017]  [<c107549d>] handle_irq_event_percpu+0x6d/0x1c0
[ 1217.643017]  [<c1077790>] ? unmask_irq+0x20/0x20
[ 1217.643017]  [<c1075618>] handle_irq_event+0x28/0x40
[ 1217.643017]  [<c107781a>] handle_fasteoi_irq+0x8a/0xe0
[ 1217.643017]  <IRQ> 
[ 1217.643017]  [<c1003e0a>] ? do_IRQ+0x3a/0xb0
[ 1217.643017]  [<c140c870>] ? common_interrupt+0x30/0x38
[ 1217.643017]  [<c1009028>] ? default_idle+0x68/0xd0
[ 1217.643017]  [<c1009a0f>] ? cpu_idle+0x8f/0xc0
[ 1217.643017]  [<c13ffe97>] ? rest_init+0x67/0x70
[ 1217.643017]  [<c161b8b8>] ? start_kernel+0x2a3/0x2aa
[ 1217.643017]  [<c161b3da>] ? repair_env_string+0x51/0x51
[ 1217.643017]  [<c161b28e>] ? i386_start_kernel+0x44/0x46
[ 1217.643017] Code: 90 90 90 90 55 89 e5 57 56 89 d6 53 83 ec 10 89 45 f0 89 4d e4 89 e0 25 00 e0 ff ff f7 40 14 00 ff ff 07 74 17 c1 e9 02 8b 7d f0 <f3> a5 8b 4d e4 83 e1 03 74 02 f3 a4 e9 27 01 00 00 8b 45 1
[ 1217.643017] EIP: [<c11e2be7>] _mmx_memcpy+0x27/0x16c SS:ESP 0068:dd40bea0
[ 1217.643017] CR2: 00000000c7cb0000
[ 1217.643017] ---[ end trace fbaa4c5261e1a846 ]---

Bruno
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Alan Stern Aug. 19, 2012, 12:11 a.m. UTC | #4
On Sat, 18 Aug 2012, Bruno Prémont wrote:

> One thing I just though about, how does usbhid handle the calls to
> usbhid_submit_report() when hid_hw_stop()/hid_hw_close() have already
> been called?

Looks like they aren't synchronized at all.  That's a bug.  
usbhid_submit_report() should check the HID_DISCONNECTED flag.

> I will attempt to see if it makes a difference to shortcut my
> usbhid_submit_report() calls from the point on I have called hid_hw_close()...

I don't know bout hid_hw_close().  Certainly no more reports should be 
submitted following usbhid_stop().

Alan Stern

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Bruno Prémont Aug. 19, 2012, 4:23 p.m. UTC | #5
On Sat, 18 August 2012 Alan Stern wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Aug 2012, Bruno Prémont wrote:
> 
> > One thing I just though about, how does usbhid handle the calls to
> > usbhid_submit_report() when hid_hw_stop()/hid_hw_close() have already
> > been called?
> 
> Looks like they aren't synchronized at all.  That's a bug.  
> usbhid_submit_report() should check the HID_DISCONNECTED flag.
> 
> > I will attempt to see if it makes a difference to shortcut my
> > usbhid_submit_report() calls from the point on I have called hid_hw_close()...
> 
> I don't know bout hid_hw_close().  Certainly no more reports should be 
> submitted following usbhid_stop().

Ok, I did just that, prevent new calls to usbhid_submit_report(), after
calling hid_hw_close(), fixed one bug in my code that triggers the NULL
pointer dereference (calling hid_set_drvdata(hdev, NULL) too early).

Now I'm still seeing the bad paging request in _mmx_memcpy(), though rather
sporadically.
The last ones I saw were during remove() around the time of calling hid_hw_close()
and hid_hw_stop(). Adding a printk() between the two (at least while picoLCD
is hosting fbcon) makes it very improbably for the bad page to happen.

It looks like low-level driver did free memory in hid_hw_close() for some
in-flight URB and thus things break in following USB interrupt.

From mapping trace information to source it seems:
usbhid/hid-core.c:
static int hid_submit_out(struct hid_device *hid)
{
        struct hid_report *report;
        char *raw_report;
        struct usbhid_device *usbhid = hid->driver_data;
        int r;

        report = usbhid->out[usbhid->outtail].report;
        raw_report = usbhid->out[usbhid->outtail].raw_report;

        usbhid->urbout->transfer_buffer_length = ((report->size - 1) >> 3) +
                                                 1 + (report->id > 0);
        usbhid->urbout->dev = hid_to_usb_dev(hid);
        if (raw_report) {
                memcpy(usbhid->outbuf, raw_report,
                                usbhid->urbout->transfer_buffer_length);
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^_ this is exploding
                kfree(raw_report);
                usbhid->out[usbhid->outtail].raw_report = NULL;
        }

        dbg_hid("submitting out urb\n");

        r = usb_submit_urb(usbhid->urbout, GFP_ATOMIC);
        if (r < 0) {
                hid_err(hid, "usb_submit_urb(out) failed: %d\n", r);
                return r;
        }
        usbhid->last_out = jiffies;
        return 0;
}


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Alan Stern Aug. 19, 2012, 7:56 p.m. UTC | #6
On Sun, 19 Aug 2012, Bruno Prémont wrote:

> > I don't know bout hid_hw_close().  Certainly no more reports should be 
> > submitted following usbhid_stop().
> 
> Ok, I did just that, prevent new calls to usbhid_submit_report(), after
> calling hid_hw_close(), fixed one bug in my code that triggers the NULL
> pointer dereference (calling hid_set_drvdata(hdev, NULL) too early).
> 
> Now I'm still seeing the bad paging request in _mmx_memcpy(), though rather
> sporadically.
> The last ones I saw were during remove() around the time of calling hid_hw_close()
> and hid_hw_stop(). Adding a printk() between the two (at least while picoLCD
> is hosting fbcon) makes it very improbably for the bad page to happen.
> 
> It looks like low-level driver did free memory in hid_hw_close() for some
> in-flight URB and thus things break in following USB interrupt.

No, memory is not freed in usbhid_close().  It is freed in 
usbhid_stop().

> From mapping trace information to source it seems:
> usbhid/hid-core.c:
> static int hid_submit_out(struct hid_device *hid)
> {
>         struct hid_report *report;
>         char *raw_report;
>         struct usbhid_device *usbhid = hid->driver_data;
>         int r;
> 
>         report = usbhid->out[usbhid->outtail].report;
>         raw_report = usbhid->out[usbhid->outtail].raw_report;
> 
>         usbhid->urbout->transfer_buffer_length = ((report->size - 1) >> 3) +
>                                                  1 + (report->id > 0);
>         usbhid->urbout->dev = hid_to_usb_dev(hid);
>         if (raw_report) {
>                 memcpy(usbhid->outbuf, raw_report,
>                                 usbhid->urbout->transfer_buffer_length);
>                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^_ this is exploding

Right.  Like I said, usbhid->outbuf is freed in hid_free_buffers(), 
which is called from usbhid_stop().

Forget about usbhid_close().  The race is between hid_submit_out() and 
usbhid_stop().

Alan Stern

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diff mbox

Patch

 drivers/hid/hid-picolcd.h      |   19 +++-
 drivers/hid/hid-picolcd_core.c |    6 +
 drivers/hid/hid-picolcd_fb.c   |  222 +++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
 3 files changed, 138 insertions(+), 109 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-picolcd.h b/drivers/hid/hid-picolcd.h
index 9200be1..dc4c795 100644
--- a/drivers/hid/hid-picolcd.h
+++ b/drivers/hid/hid-picolcd.h
@@ -90,11 +90,6 @@  struct picolcd_data {
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_HID_PICOLCD_FB
 	/* Framebuffer stuff */
-	u8 fb_update_rate;
-	u8 fb_bpp;
-	u8 fb_force;
-	u8 *fb_vbitmap;		/* local copy of what was sent to PicoLCD */
-	u8 *fb_bitmap;		/* framebuffer */
 	struct fb_info *fb_info;
 #endif /* CONFIG_HID_PICOLCD_FB */
 #ifdef CONFIG_HID_PICOLCD_LCD
@@ -119,9 +114,21 @@  struct picolcd_data {
 	int status;
 #define PICOLCD_BOOTLOADER 1
 #define PICOLCD_FAILED 2
-#define PICOLCD_READY_FB 4
 };
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_HID_PICOLCD_FB
+struct picolcd_fb_data {
+	/* Framebuffer stuff */
+	spinlock_t lock;
+	struct picolcd_data *picolcd;
+	u8 update_rate;
+	u8 bpp;
+	u8 force;
+	u8 ready;
+	u8 *vbitmap;		/* local copy of what was sent to PicoLCD */
+	u8 *bitmap;		/* framebuffer */
+};
+#endif /* CONFIG_HID_PICOLCD_FB */
 
 /* Find a given report */
 #define picolcd_in_report(id, dev) picolcd_report(id, dev, HID_INPUT_REPORT)
diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-picolcd_core.c b/drivers/hid/hid-picolcd_core.c
index e08ffd2..153acc2 100644
--- a/drivers/hid/hid-picolcd_core.c
+++ b/drivers/hid/hid-picolcd_core.c
@@ -539,6 +539,7 @@  static int picolcd_probe(struct hid_device *hdev,
 	int error = -ENOMEM;
 
 	dbg_hid(PICOLCD_NAME " hardware probe...\n");
+	printk(KERN_INFO "hid-picolcd: probe() 1/4\n");
 
 	/*
 	 * Let's allocate the picolcd data structure, set some reasonable
@@ -559,6 +560,7 @@  static int picolcd_probe(struct hid_device *hdev,
 		data->status |= PICOLCD_BOOTLOADER;
 	hid_set_drvdata(hdev, data);
 
+	printk(KERN_INFO "hid-picolcd: probe(%p) 2/4\n", data);
 	/* Parse the device reports and start it up */
 	error = hid_parse(hdev);
 	if (error) {
@@ -578,6 +580,7 @@  static int picolcd_probe(struct hid_device *hdev,
 		goto err_cleanup_hid_hw;
 	}
 
+	printk(KERN_INFO "hid-picolcd: probe(%p) 3/4\n", data);
 	error = device_create_file(&hdev->dev, &dev_attr_operation_mode_delay);
 	if (error) {
 		hid_err(hdev, "failed to create sysfs attributes\n");
@@ -597,6 +600,7 @@  static int picolcd_probe(struct hid_device *hdev,
 	if (error)
 		goto err_cleanup_sysfs2;
 
+	printk(KERN_INFO "hid-picolcd: probe(%p, [fb=%p]) 4/4\n", data, data->fb_info);
 	dbg_hid(PICOLCD_NAME " activated and initialized\n");
 	return 0;
 
@@ -621,6 +625,7 @@  static void picolcd_remove(struct hid_device *hdev)
 	struct picolcd_data *data = hid_get_drvdata(hdev);
 	unsigned long flags;
 
+	printk(KERN_INFO "hid-picolcd: remove(%p [fb=%p]) ...\n", data, data->fb_info);
 	dbg_hid(PICOLCD_NAME " hardware remove...\n");
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&data->lock, flags);
 	data->status |= PICOLCD_FAILED;
@@ -649,6 +654,7 @@  static void picolcd_remove(struct hid_device *hdev)
 	picolcd_exit_cir(data);
 	picolcd_exit_keys(data);
 
+	printk(KERN_INFO "hid-picolcd: remove(%p [fb=%p]) done\n", data, data->fb_info);
 	mutex_destroy(&data->mutex);
 	/* Finally, clean up the picolcd data itself */
 	kfree(data);
diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-picolcd_fb.c b/drivers/hid/hid-picolcd_fb.c
index 4d8e22c..86b7a24 100644
--- a/drivers/hid/hid-picolcd_fb.c
+++ b/drivers/hid/hid-picolcd_fb.c
@@ -98,16 +98,19 @@  static const struct fb_var_screeninfo picolcdfb_var = {
 };
 
 /* Send a given tile to PicoLCD */
-static int picolcd_fb_send_tile(struct hid_device *hdev, int chip, int tile)
+static int picolcd_fb_send_tile(struct picolcd_data *data, u8 *vbitmap,
+		int chip, int tile)
 {
-	struct picolcd_data *data = hid_get_drvdata(hdev);
-	struct hid_report *report1 = picolcd_out_report(REPORT_LCD_CMD_DATA, hdev);
-	struct hid_report *report2 = picolcd_out_report(REPORT_LCD_DATA, hdev);
+	struct hid_report *report1, *report2;
 	unsigned long flags;
 	u8 *tdata;
 	int i;
 
-	if (!report1 || report1->maxfield != 1 || !report2 || report2->maxfield != 1)
+	report1 = picolcd_out_report(REPORT_LCD_CMD_DATA, data->hdev);
+	if (!report1 || report1->maxfield != 1)
+		return -ENODEV;
+	report2 = picolcd_out_report(REPORT_LCD_DATA, data->hdev);
+	if (!report2 || report2->maxfield != 1)
 		return -ENODEV;
 
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&data->lock, flags);
@@ -128,7 +131,7 @@  static int picolcd_fb_send_tile(struct hid_device *hdev, int chip, int tile)
 	hid_set_field(report2->field[0],  2, 0x00);
 	hid_set_field(report2->field[0],  3,   32);
 
-	tdata = data->fb_vbitmap + (tile * 4 + chip) * 64;
+	tdata = vbitmap + (tile * 4 + chip) * 64;
 	for (i = 0; i < 64; i++)
 		if (i < 32)
 			hid_set_field(report1->field[0], 11 + i, tdata[i]);
@@ -189,6 +192,7 @@  void picolcd_fb_refresh(struct picolcd_data *data)
 int picolcd_fb_reset(struct picolcd_data *data, int clear)
 {
 	struct hid_report *report = picolcd_out_report(REPORT_LCD_CMD, data->hdev);
+	struct picolcd_fb_data *fbdata = data->fb_info->par;
 	int i, j;
 	unsigned long flags;
 	static const u8 mapcmd[8] = { 0x00, 0x02, 0x00, 0x64, 0x3f, 0x00, 0x64, 0xc0 };
@@ -207,20 +211,19 @@  int picolcd_fb_reset(struct picolcd_data *data, int clear)
 				hid_set_field(report->field[0], j, 0);
 		usbhid_submit_report(data->hdev, report, USB_DIR_OUT);
 	}
-
-	data->status |= PICOLCD_READY_FB;
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&data->lock, flags);
 
-	if (data->fb_bitmap) {
-		if (clear) {
-			memset(data->fb_vbitmap, 0, PICOLCDFB_SIZE);
-			memset(data->fb_bitmap, 0, PICOLCDFB_SIZE*data->fb_bpp);
-		}
-		data->fb_force = 1;
+	if (clear) {
+		memset(fbdata->vbitmap, 0, PICOLCDFB_SIZE);
+		memset(fbdata->bitmap, 0, PICOLCDFB_SIZE*fbdata->bpp);
 	}
+	fbdata->force = 1;
 
 	/* schedule first output of framebuffer */
-	picolcd_fb_refresh(data);
+	if (fbdata->ready)
+		schedule_delayed_work(&data->fb_info->deferred_work, 0);
+	else
+		fbdata->ready = 1;
 
 	return 0;
 }
@@ -230,20 +233,15 @@  static void picolcd_fb_update(struct fb_info *info)
 {
 	int chip, tile, n;
 	unsigned long flags;
+	struct picolcd_fb_data *fbdata = info->par;
 	struct picolcd_data *data;
 
 	mutex_lock(&info->lock);
-	data = info->par;
-	if (!data)
-		goto out;
 
-	spin_lock_irqsave(&data->lock, flags);
-	if (!(data->status & PICOLCD_READY_FB)) {
-		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&data->lock, flags);
-		picolcd_fb_reset(data, 0);
-	} else {
-		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&data->lock, flags);
-	}
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&fbdata->lock, flags);
+	if (!fbdata->ready && fbdata->picolcd)
+		picolcd_fb_reset(fbdata->picolcd, 0);
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&fbdata->lock, flags);
 
 	/*
 	 * Translate the framebuffer into the format needed by the PicoLCD.
@@ -254,32 +252,38 @@  static void picolcd_fb_update(struct fb_info *info)
 	 */
 	n = 0;
 	for (chip = 0; chip < 4; chip++)
-		for (tile = 0; tile < 8; tile++)
-			if (picolcd_fb_update_tile(data->fb_vbitmap,
-					data->fb_bitmap, data->fb_bpp, chip, tile) ||
-				data->fb_force) {
-				n += 2;
-				if (n >= HID_OUTPUT_FIFO_SIZE / 2) {
-					mutex_unlock(&info->lock);
-					usbhid_wait_io(data->hdev);
-					mutex_lock(&info->lock);
-					data = info->par;
-					if (!data)
-						goto out;
-					spin_lock_irqsave(&data->lock, flags);
-					if (data->status & PICOLCD_FAILED) {
-						spin_unlock_irqrestore(&data->lock, flags);
-						goto out;
-					}
-					spin_unlock_irqrestore(&data->lock, flags);
-					n = 0;
-				}
-				picolcd_fb_send_tile(data->hdev, chip, tile);
+		for (tile = 0; tile < 8; tile++) {
+			if (!fbdata->force && !picolcd_fb_update_tile(
+					fbdata->vbitmap, fbdata->bitmap,
+					fbdata->bpp, chip, tile))
+				continue;
+			n += 2;
+			if (n >= HID_OUTPUT_FIFO_SIZE / 2) {
+				spin_lock_irqsave(&fbdata->lock, flags);
+				data = fbdata->picolcd;
+				spin_unlock_irqrestore(&fbdata->lock, flags);
+				mutex_unlock(&info->lock);
+				if (!data)
+					return;
+				usbhid_wait_io(data->hdev);
+				mutex_lock(&info->lock);
+				n = 0;
 			}
-	data->fb_force = false;
+			spin_lock_irqsave(&fbdata->lock, flags);
+			data = fbdata->picolcd;
+			spin_unlock_irqrestore(&fbdata->lock, flags);
+			if (!data)
+				goto out;
+			picolcd_fb_send_tile(data, fbdata->vbitmap, chip, tile);
+		}
+	fbdata->force = false;
 	if (n) {
+		spin_lock_irqsave(&fbdata->lock, flags);
+		data = fbdata->picolcd;
+		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&fbdata->lock, flags);
 		mutex_unlock(&info->lock);
-		usbhid_wait_io(data->hdev);
+		if (data)
+			usbhid_wait_io(data->hdev);
 		return;
 	}
 out:
@@ -336,20 +340,24 @@  static ssize_t picolcd_fb_write(struct fb_info *info, const char __user *buf,
 
 static int picolcd_fb_blank(int blank, struct fb_info *info)
 {
-	if (!info->par)
-		return -ENODEV;
 	/* We let fb notification do this for us via lcd/backlight device */
 	return 0;
 }
 
 static void picolcd_fb_destroy(struct fb_info *info)
 {
+	struct picolcd_fb_data *fbdata = info->par;
+
+	printk(KERN_INFO "hid-picolcd: fb_destroy(%p [fb=%p]) ...\n", fbdata->picolcd, info);
 	/* make sure no work is deferred */
 	fb_deferred_io_cleanup(info);
 
+	/* No thridparty should ever unregister our framebuffer! */
+	WARN_ON(fbdata->picolcd != NULL);
+
 	vfree((u8 *)info->fix.smem_start);
 	framebuffer_release(info);
-	printk(KERN_DEBUG "picolcd_fb_destroy(%p)\n", info);
+	printk(KERN_INFO "hid-picolcd: fb_destroy(-- [fb=%p]) done\n", info);
 }
 
 static int picolcd_fb_check_var(struct fb_var_screeninfo *var, struct fb_info *info)
@@ -376,17 +384,15 @@  static int picolcd_fb_check_var(struct fb_var_screeninfo *var, struct fb_info *i
 
 static int picolcd_set_par(struct fb_info *info)
 {
-	struct picolcd_data *data = info->par;
+	struct picolcd_fb_data *fbdata = info->par;
 	u8 *tmp_fb, *o_fb;
-	if (!data)
-		return -ENODEV;
-	if (info->var.bits_per_pixel == data->fb_bpp)
+	if (info->var.bits_per_pixel == fbdata->bpp)
 		return 0;
 	/* switch between 1/8 bit depths */
 	if (info->var.bits_per_pixel != 1 && info->var.bits_per_pixel != 8)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	o_fb   = data->fb_bitmap;
+	o_fb   = fbdata->bitmap;
 	tmp_fb = kmalloc(PICOLCDFB_SIZE*info->var.bits_per_pixel, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!tmp_fb)
 		return -ENOMEM;
@@ -415,7 +421,7 @@  static int picolcd_set_par(struct fb_info *info)
 	}
 
 	kfree(tmp_fb);
-	data->fb_bpp      = info->var.bits_per_pixel;
+	fbdata->bpp = info->var.bits_per_pixel;
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -453,7 +459,8 @@  static ssize_t picolcd_fb_update_rate_show(struct device *dev,
 		struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
 {
 	struct picolcd_data *data = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
-	unsigned i, fb_update_rate = data->fb_update_rate;
+	struct picolcd_fb_data *fbdata = data->fb_info->par;
+	unsigned i, fb_update_rate = fbdata->update_rate;
 	size_t ret = 0;
 
 	for (i = 1; i <= PICOLCDFB_UPDATE_RATE_LIMIT; i++)
@@ -472,6 +479,7 @@  static ssize_t picolcd_fb_update_rate_store(struct device *dev,
 		struct device_attribute *attr, const char *buf, size_t count)
 {
 	struct picolcd_data *data = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
+	struct picolcd_fb_data *fbdata = data->fb_info->par;
 	int i;
 	unsigned u;
 
@@ -487,8 +495,8 @@  static ssize_t picolcd_fb_update_rate_store(struct device *dev,
 	else if (u == 0)
 		u = PICOLCDFB_UPDATE_RATE_DEFAULT;
 
-	data->fb_update_rate = u;
-	data->fb_info->fbdefio->delay = HZ / data->fb_update_rate;
+	fbdata->update_rate = u;
+	data->fb_info->fbdefio->delay = HZ / fbdata->update_rate;
 	return count;
 }
 
@@ -500,30 +508,18 @@  int picolcd_init_framebuffer(struct picolcd_data *data)
 {
 	struct device *dev = &data->hdev->dev;
 	struct fb_info *info = NULL;
+	struct picolcd_fb_data *fbdata = NULL;
 	int i, error = -ENOMEM;
-	u8 *fb_vbitmap = NULL;
-	u8 *fb_bitmap  = NULL;
 	u32 *palette;
 
-	fb_bitmap = vmalloc(PICOLCDFB_SIZE*8);
-	if (fb_bitmap == NULL) {
-		dev_err(dev, "can't get a free page for framebuffer\n");
-		goto err_nomem;
-	}
-
-	fb_vbitmap = kmalloc(PICOLCDFB_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (fb_vbitmap == NULL) {
-		dev_err(dev, "can't alloc vbitmap image buffer\n");
-		goto err_nomem;
-	}
-
-	data->fb_update_rate = PICOLCDFB_UPDATE_RATE_DEFAULT;
 	/* The extra memory is:
 	 * - 256*u32 for pseudo_palette
 	 * - struct fb_deferred_io
 	 */
 	info = framebuffer_alloc(256 * sizeof(u32) +
-			sizeof(struct fb_deferred_io), dev);
+			sizeof(struct fb_deferred_io) +
+			sizeof(struct picolcd_fb_data) +
+			PICOLCDFB_SIZE, dev);
 	if (info == NULL) {
 		dev_err(dev, "failed to allocate a framebuffer\n");
 		goto err_nomem;
@@ -531,74 +527,94 @@  int picolcd_init_framebuffer(struct picolcd_data *data)
 
 	info->fbdefio = info->par;
 	*info->fbdefio = picolcd_fb_defio;
-	palette  = info->par + sizeof(struct fb_deferred_io);
+	info->par += sizeof(struct fb_deferred_io);
+	palette = info->par;
+	info->par += 256 * sizeof(u32);
 	for (i = 0; i < 256; i++)
 		palette[i] = i > 0 && i < 16 ? 0xff : 0;
 	info->pseudo_palette = palette;
-	info->screen_base = (char __force __iomem *)fb_bitmap;
 	info->fbops = &picolcdfb_ops;
 	info->var = picolcdfb_var;
 	info->fix = picolcdfb_fix;
 	info->fix.smem_len   = PICOLCDFB_SIZE*8;
-	info->fix.smem_start = (unsigned long)fb_bitmap;
-	info->par = data;
 	info->flags = FBINFO_FLAG_DEFAULT;
 
-	data->fb_vbitmap = fb_vbitmap;
-	data->fb_bitmap  = fb_bitmap;
-	data->fb_bpp     = picolcdfb_var.bits_per_pixel;
+	fbdata = info->par;
+	spin_lock_init(&fbdata->lock);
+	fbdata->picolcd = data;
+	fbdata->update_rate = PICOLCDFB_UPDATE_RATE_DEFAULT;
+	fbdata->bpp     = picolcdfb_var.bits_per_pixel;
+	fbdata->force   = 1;
+	fbdata->vbitmap = info->par + sizeof(struct picolcd_fb_data);
+	fbdata->bitmap  = vmalloc(PICOLCDFB_SIZE*8);
+	if (fbdata->bitmap == NULL) {
+		dev_err(dev, "can't get a free page for framebuffer\n");
+		goto err_nomem;
+	}
+	info->screen_base = (char __force __iomem *)fbdata->bitmap;
+	info->fix.smem_start = (unsigned long)fbdata->bitmap;
+	memset(fbdata->vbitmap, 0xff, PICOLCDFB_SIZE);
+	data->fb_info = info;
+
+	printk(KERN_INFO "hid-picolcd: init_framebuffer(%p [fb=%p]) 1/5\n", data, info);
 	error = picolcd_fb_reset(data, 1);
 	if (error) {
 		dev_err(dev, "failed to configure display\n");
 		goto err_cleanup;
 	}
+
+	printk(KERN_INFO "hid-picolcd: init_framebuffer(%p [fb=%p]) 2/5\n", data, info);
 	error = device_create_file(dev, &dev_attr_fb_update_rate);
 	if (error) {
 		dev_err(dev, "failed to create sysfs attributes\n");
 		goto err_cleanup;
 	}
+
+	printk(KERN_INFO "hid-picolcd: init_framebuffer(%p [fb=%p]) 3/5\n", data, info);
 	fb_deferred_io_init(info);
-	data->fb_info    = info;
+	printk(KERN_INFO "hid-picolcd: init_framebuffer(%p [fb=%p]) 4/5\n", data, info);
 	error = register_framebuffer(info);
 	if (error) {
 		dev_err(dev, "failed to register framebuffer\n");
 		goto err_sysfs;
 	}
-	/* schedule first output of framebuffer */
-	data->fb_force = 1;
-	schedule_delayed_work(&info->deferred_work, 0);
+	printk(KERN_INFO "hid-picolcd: init_framebuffer(%p [fb=%p]) 5/5\n", data, info);
 	return 0;
 
 err_sysfs:
-	fb_deferred_io_cleanup(info);
 	device_remove_file(dev, &dev_attr_fb_update_rate);
+	fb_deferred_io_cleanup(info);
 err_cleanup:
-	data->fb_vbitmap = NULL;
-	data->fb_bitmap  = NULL;
-	data->fb_bpp     = 0;
 	data->fb_info    = NULL;
 
 err_nomem:
+	if (fbdata)
+		vfree(fbdata->bitmap);
 	framebuffer_release(info);
-	vfree(fb_bitmap);
-	kfree(fb_vbitmap);
+	printk(KERN_INFO "hid-picolcd: init_framebuffer(%p [fb=%p]) failed\n", data, info);
 	return error;
 }
 
 void picolcd_exit_framebuffer(struct picolcd_data *data)
 {
 	struct fb_info *info = data->fb_info;
-	u8 *fb_vbitmap = data->fb_vbitmap;
-
-	if (!info)
-		return;
+	struct picolcd_fb_data *fbdata = info->par;
+	unsigned long flags;
 
+	printk(KERN_INFO "hid-picolcd: exit_framebuffer(%p [fb=%p]) ...\n", data, info);
 	device_remove_file(&data->hdev->dev, &dev_attr_fb_update_rate);
-	info->par = NULL;
+
+	/* disconnect framebuffer from HID dev */
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&fbdata->lock, flags);
+	fbdata->picolcd = NULL;
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&fbdata->lock, flags);
+
+	/* make sure there is no running update - thus that fbdata->picolcd
+	 * once obtained under lock is guaranteed not to get free() under
+	 * the feet of the deferred work */
+	flush_delayed_work_sync(&info->deferred_work);
+
+	data->fb_info = NULL;
 	unregister_framebuffer(info);
-	data->fb_vbitmap = NULL;
-	data->fb_bitmap  = NULL;
-	data->fb_bpp     = 0;
-	data->fb_info    = NULL;
-	kfree(fb_vbitmap);
+	printk(KERN_INFO "hid-picolcd: exit_framebuffer(%p [fb=%p]) done\n", data, info);
 }