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+Top: d7c667ace9790b0e62352ad738c131d7604ae9f6
+Author: Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@intel.com>
+Date: 2010-07-21 14:32:53 -0700
+
+rdma/ib_cm: check LAP state before sending an MRA
+
+This problem was originally reported by Arthur Kepner <akepner@sgi.com>:
+
+We have a customer who has repeatedly had system panics with
+the following signature:
+
+Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000010 RIP:
+<ffffffff882c2c5c>{:ib_cm:ib_cm_init_qp_attr+580}
+PGD 3a2db6067 PUD 0
+Oops: 0000 [1] SMP
+last sysfs file: /class/infiniband/mlx4_0/node_guid
+CPU 4
+Modules linked in: i2c_dev sg sd_mod crc32c libcrc32c iscsi_tcp libiscsi
+scsi_transport_iscsi rdma_ucm rdma_cm
+iw_cm ib_addr ib_ipoib ib_cm ib_sa ipv6 ib_uverbs ib_umad iw_cxgb3 cxgb3
+firmware_class mlx4_ib ib_mthca ib_mad
+ ib_core loop numatools xpmem worm mlx4_core libata i2c_i801 scsi_mod i2c_core
+shpchp pci_hotplug nfs lockd nfs
+_acl af_packet sunrpc e1000
+Pid: 3256, comm: star Tainted: G U 2.6.16.60-0.34-smp #1
+RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff882c2c5c>]
+<ffffffff882c2c5c>{:ib_cm:ib_cm_init_qp_attr+580}
+RSP: 0018:ffff810369d09d38 EFLAGS: 00010046
+RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff810419678c00 RCX: 0000000000000008
+RDX: 0000000000000246 RSI: ffff810419678d18 RDI: ffff810369d09e70
+RBP: ffff810369d09e18 R08: 000000030000003d R09: 0000000000000000
+R10: ffff810369d09e18 R11: 0000000000000088 R12: ffff810369d09d88
+R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff810419678c80 R15: 00000000403500b0
+FS: 0000000040354940(0063) GS:ffff810420ffbbc0(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
+CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
+CR2: 0000000000000010 CR3: 000000039f0c4000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
+Process star (pid: 3256, threadinfo ffff810369d08000, task ffff8103b81b5830)
+Stack: ffff810419678a00 ffff810369d09d88 ffff810369d09e18 ffff810369d09e18
+ 0000000040143430 ffffffff882fb6d5 ffff810376261540 ffff81040bea4740
+ ffff810376261540 ffffffff88309285
+Call Trace: <ffffffff882fb6d5>{:rdma_cm:rdma_init_qp_attr+209}
+ <ffffffff88309285>{:rdma_ucm:ucma_init_qp_attr+160}
+ <ffffffff802ea55a>{thread_return+0}
+<ffffffff8830832e>{:rdma_ucm:ucma_write+115}
+ <ffffffff80186662>{vfs_write+215} <ffffffff80186c2b>{sys_write+69}
+ <ffffffff8010adba>{system_call+126}
+
+Code: 8a 40 10 88 85 85 00 00 00 8b 83 38 01 00 00 66 89 45 7a 8a
+RIP <ffffffff882c2c5c>{:ib_cm:ib_cm_init_qp_attr+580} RSP <ffff810369d09d38>
+
+
+From a crash dump, I determined that we died in cm_init_qp_rts_attr()
+(it's inline, so it doesn't show up in the traceback) on the line
+labeled below:
+
+static int cm_init_qp_rts_attr(struct cm_id_private *cm_id_priv,
+ struct ib_qp_attr *qp_attr,
+ int *qp_attr_mask)
+{
+ ........
+ if (cm_id_priv->id.lap_state == IB_CM_LAP_UNINIT) {
+ .....
+ } else {
+ *qp_attr_mask = IB_QP_ALT_PATH | IB_QP_PATH_MIG_STATE;
+ qp_attr->alt_port_num = cm_id_priv->alt_av.port->port_num; <-die
+
+
+A similar problem was reported by Josh England <jjengla@gmail.com>.
+
+The problem is that the rdma_cm can call ib_send_cm_mra() after a
+connection has been established. The ib_cm incorrectly assumes that the
+MRA is in response to a LAP (load alternate path) message, even though no
+LAP message has been received. The ib_cm needs to check the lap_state
+before sending an MRA if the cm_id state is established.
+
+Signed-off-by: Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@intel.com>
+
+
+---
+
+