[ofa-general] oops on mlx4 modprobe

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

I got the following when loading mlx4_ib on git
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[ 1350.668590] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000028 RIP:
[ 1350.674068]  [<ffffffff8027b373>] __kmalloc+0x51/0xaf
[ 1350.682159] PGD 0
[ 1350.684378] Oops: 0000 [1] SMP
[ 1350.687735] CPU 3
[ 1350.689950] Modules linked in: ib_ipoib ib_cm ib_sa ib_uverbs ib_umad mlx4_ib mlx4_core ib_mthca ib_mad ib_core piix ata_piix
[ 1350.701777] Pid: 5391, comm: ipoib Not tainted 2.6.22-x86_64-git #119
[ 1350.708400] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8027b373>]  [<ffffffff8027b373>] __kmalloc+0x51/0xaf
[ 1350.716536] RSP: 0018:ffff81007c655ba0  EFLAGS: 00010046
[ 1350.722034] RAX: 0000000000000003 RBX: 0000000000000246 RCX: 0000000000000040
[ 1350.729352] RDX: ffff81007ed15000 RSI: 00000000000000d0 RDI: 0000000000000000
[ 1350.736669] RBP: ffff81007c655bc0 R08: 00000000fffffff0 R09: ffff810075779d80
[ 1350.743985] R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000005b8d800 R12: 00000000000000d0
[ 1350.751302] R13: 0000000000000010 R14: ffff81007ed7cc78 R15: ffff81007dbad800
[ 1350.758620] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff81007ff2b340(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 1350.767089] CS:  0010 DS: 0018 ES: 0018 CR0: 000000008005003b
[ 1350.773021] CR2: 0000000000000028 CR3: 0000000075ca6000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
[ 1350.780338] Process ipoib (pid: 5391, threadinfo ffff81007c654000, task ffff81007c5d8040)
[ 1350.788895] Stack:  ffff81007ed7cc00 0000000000000000 ffff81007ed7cc00 ffff81007ed7cd20
[ 1350.797331]  ffff81007c655c40 ffffffff88063cb6 ffff81006ae20b80 000000006ae20c30
[ 1350.805151]  ffff81007c655df0 ffff81007e3ba380 00000000000000d0 ffff81007ffa7c80
[ 1350.812587] Call Trace:
[ 1350.815619]  [<ffffffff88063cb6>] :mlx4_ib:create_qp_common+0x558/0x736
[ 1350.822421]  [<ffffffff88064c2e>] :mlx4_ib:mlx4_ib_create_qp+0x62/0x11f
[ 1350.829223]  [<ffffffff880999d2>] :ib_ipoib:ipoib_cm_tx_completion+0x0/0x2bb
[ 1350.836461]  [<ffffffff8800eca9>] :ib_core:ib_create_qp+0x18/0x94
[ 1350.842743]  [<ffffffff8809a281>] :ib_ipoib:ipoib_cm_tx_start+0x216/0x651
[ 1350.849714]  [<ffffffff80244382>] queue_work+0x3f/0x4a
[ 1350.855043]  [<ffffffff88080e63>] :ib_sa:ib_sa_join_multicast+0x292/0x2df
[ 1350.862030]  [<ffffffff8809a06b>] :ib_ipoib:ipoib_cm_tx_start+0x0/0x651
[ 1350.868829]  [<ffffffff80243cd4>] run_workqueue+0x85/0x10f
[ 1350.874501]  [<ffffffff80244695>] worker_thread+0x0/0xe7
[ 1350.880000]  [<ffffffff80244771>] worker_thread+0xdc/0xe7
[ 1350.885585]  [<ffffffff80247747>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x38
[ 1350.892036]  [<ffffffff80247622>] kthread+0x49/0x77
[ 1350.897102]  [<ffffffff8020caa8>] child_rip+0xa/0x12
[ 1350.902254]  [<ffffffff802475d9>] kthread+0x0/0x77
[ 1350.907231]  [<ffffffff8020ca9e>] child_rip+0x0/0x12
[ 1350.912384]
[ 1350.914068]
[ 1350.914068] Code: 49 8b 54 c5 00 83 3a 00 74 16 8b 02 c7 42 0c 01 00 00 00 ff
[ 1350.923599] RIP  [<ffffffff8027b373>] __kmalloc+0x51/0xaf
[ 1350.929195]  RSP <ffff81007c655ba0>
[ 1350.932873] CR2: 0000000000000028


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