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I'm developing a network driver for Raspbian (kernel version 4.9.24) on a Raspberry Pi and each time I load my module it crashes.

Using the logs in /var/log/messages I've been able to tell which method fails, but still I'm not able to know why it fails.

May  7 17:15:29 raspberrypi kernel: [  228.384164] CPU: 0 PID: 1163 Comm: insmod Tainted: P           O    4.9.24+ #993
May  7 17:15:29 raspberrypi kernel: [  228.388503] Hardware name: BCM2835
May  7 17:15:29 raspberrypi kernel: [  228.390701] task: d888ed00 task.stack: da696000
May  7 17:15:29 raspberrypi kernel: [  228.392901] PC is at register_netdevice+0x20/0x4cc
May  7 17:15:29 raspberrypi kernel: [  228.395064] LR is at register_netdev+0x24/0x34
May  7 17:15:29 raspberrypi kernel: [  228.397106] pc : [<c04eea38>]    lr : [<c04eef08>]    psr: 60000013
May  7 17:15:29 raspberrypi kernel: [  228.397106] sp : da697d48  ip : da697d90  fp : da697d8c
May  7 17:15:29 raspberrypi kernel: [  228.401178] r10: 00000000  r9 : 00000001  r8 : da69bac0
May  7 17:15:29 raspberrypi kernel: [  228.403177] r7 : bf38b4c0  r6 : da6b22c0  r5 : 00000000  r4 : 00000000
May  7 17:15:29 raspberrypi kernel: [  228.405203] r3 : c090bd50  r2 : 00000000  r1 : c08b262c  r0 : 00000000
May  7 17:15:29 raspberrypi kernel: [  228.407187] Flags: nZCv  IRQs on  FIQs on  Mode SVC_32  ISA ARM  Segment user
May  7 17:15:29 raspberrypi kernel: [  228.409194] Control: 00c5387d  Table: 188a8008  DAC: 00000055
May  7 17:15:29 raspberrypi kernel: [  228.527223] [<c04eea38>] (register_netdevice) from [<c04eef08>] (register_netdev+0x24/0x34)
May  7 17:15:29 raspberrypi kernel: [  228.532724] [<c04eef08>] (register_netdev) from [<bf38b15c>] (init_module+0x64/0xa4 [lum])
May  7 17:15:29 raspberrypi kernel: [  228.538298] [<bf38b15c>] (init_module [lum]) from [<c0009a1c>] (do_one_initcall+0x4c/0x188)
May  7 17:15:29 raspberrypi kernel: [  228.543850] [<c0009a1c>] (do_one_initcall) from [<c00e3ffc>] (do_init_module+0x6c/0x1dc)
May  7 17:15:29 raspberrypi kernel: [  228.549346] [<c00e3ffc>] (do_init_module) from [<c00837d0>] (load_module+0x1a64/0x1fb8)
May  7 17:15:29 raspberrypi kernel: [  228.554907] [<c00837d0>] (load_module) from [<c0083efc>] (SyS_finit_module+0x9c/0xac)
May  7 17:15:29 raspberrypi kernel: [  228.560463] [<c0083efc>] (SyS_finit_module) from [<c000fe40>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x1c)
May  7 17:15:29 raspberrypi kernel: [  228.568861] ---[ end trace 279ccc9024b7e026 ]---

So register_netdevice method is failing, but I have no idea how to know where. Also, when I call insmod a Stack is printed in the terminal:

$ sudo insmod lum.ko
Message from syslogd@raspberrypi at May  7 17:15:29 ... kernel:[  228.375707] Internal error: Oops: 5 [#1] ARM
Message from syslogd@raspberrypi at May  7 17:15:29 ... kernel:[  228.411149] Process insmod (pid: 1163, stack limit = 0xda696188)
Message from syslogd@raspberrypi at May  7 17:15:29 ... kernel:[  228.413044] Stack: (0xda697d48 to 0xda698000)
Message from syslogd@raspberrypi at May  7 17:15:29 ... kernel:[  228.414943] 7d40:                   bf38b4c0 da69bac0 00000001 c05d16bc da697d7c da697d68
Message from syslogd@raspberrypi at May  7 17:15:29 ... kernel:[  228.418939] 7d60: c05d16bc c05d023c 00000000 bf38b0f8 da6b22c0 bf38b4c0 da69bac0 00000001
Message from syslogd@raspberrypi at May  7 17:15:29 ... kernel:[  228.423013] 7d80: da697da4 da697d90 c04eef08 c04eea24 bf38b6a0 bf38b4c0 da697dbc da697da8
Message from syslogd@raspberrypi at May  7 17:15:29 ... kernel:[  228.427108] 7da0: bf38b15c c04eeef0 00000001 00000001 da697e3c da697dc0 c0009a1c bf38b104
Message from syslogd@raspberrypi at May  7 17:15:29 ... kernel:[  228.431275] 7dc0: da69bac8 024000c0 c00e3fc0 dac01e60 0000000c 2596455c da697dfc da697de8
Message from syslogd@raspberrypi at May  7 17:15:29 ... kernel:[  228.435731] 7de0: c05d0220 c05cfa70 da696000 024000c0 da697e0c da697e00 c05d0278 c05d020c
Message from syslogd@raspberrypi at May  7 17:15:29 ... kernel:[  228.440472] 7e00: da697e3c da697e10 c01334a0 c05d023c 00000001 bf38b4c0 da69bac8 da6b22c0
Message from syslogd@raspberrypi at May  7 17:15:29 ... kernel:[  228.445382] 7e20: bf38b4c0 da69bac0 00000001 2596455c da697e64 da697e40 c00e3ffc c00099dc
Message from syslogd@raspberrypi at May  7 17:15:29 ... kernel:[  228.450472] 7e40: 00000001 bf38b4c0 da697e64 da697f3c da69bac8 00000001 da697f14 da697e68
Message from syslogd@raspberrypi at May  7 17:15:29 ... kernel:[  228.455746] 7e60: c00837d0 c00e3f9c bf38b4cc 00007fff bf38b4c0 c0080f4c da697ea4 00000000
Message from syslogd@raspberrypi at May  7 17:15:29 ... kernel:[  228.461149] 7e80: bf38b4cc bf38b4cc bf38b6a4 bf38b684 bf38b5b4 bf38b508 da697ee4 da697ea8
Message from syslogd@raspberrypi at May  7 17:15:29 ... kernel:[  228.466589] 7ea0: c014b170 c014aaf4 dd4b2000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
Message from syslogd@raspberrypi at May  7 17:15:29 ... kernel:[  228.472117] 7ec0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
Message from syslogd@raspberrypi at May  7 17:15:29 ... kernel:[  228.477650] 7ee0: 00000000 00000000 7fffffff 00000000 00000003 7f5d73b0 0000017b 7fffffff
Message from syslogd@raspberrypi at May  7 17:15:29 ... kernel:[  228.483112] 7f00: 00000000 00000000 da697fa4 da697f18 c0083efc c0081d78 7fffffff 00000000
Message from syslogd@raspberrypi at May  7 17:15:29 ... kernel:[  228.488641] 7f20: 00000003 c0106b70 da697f74 dd4b2000 0000158c 00000000 00000002 dd4b2000
Message from syslogd@raspberrypi at May  7 17:15:29 ... kernel:[  228.494167] 7f40: 0000158c dd4b31cc dd4b29ac dd4b2e70 000006a4 000008a4 00000000 00000000
Message from syslogd@raspberrypi at May  7 17:15:29 ... kernel:[  228.499628] 7f60: 00000000 0000054c 00000016 00000017 0000000f 0000000d 0000000c 00000000
Message from syslogd@raspberrypi at May  7 17:15:29 ... kernel:[  228.505155] 7f80: bee37758 a5d60900 7f5e9000 bee37758 c000ffc4 da696000 00000000 da697fa8
Message from syslogd@raspberrypi at May  7 17:15:29 ... kernel:[  228.510672] 7fa0: c000fe40 c0083e6c a5d60900 7f5e9000 00000003 7f5d73b0 00000000 00000002
Message from syslogd@raspberrypi at May  7 17:15:29 ... kernel:[  228.516137] 7fc0: a5d60900 7f5e9000 bee37758 0000017b 7f5d73b0 00000002 7f5d320c 00000000
Message from syslogd@raspberrypi at May  7 17:15:29 ... kernel:[  228.521670] 7fe0: bee37590 bee37580 7f5cc0ac b6e4cc40 60000010 00000003 00000000 00000000
Message from syslogd@raspberrypi at May  7 17:15:29 ... kernel:[  228.565948] Code: e52de004 e8bd4000 e59f3460 e1a05000 (e59062e0)

I'm just wondering how could I debug this properly, since I've never worked with Kernel Modules, to get a proper understanding of what's happening.

EDIT:

I think it might be useful to resolve the IP symbol at /var/log/messages file, but I don't really know how to do it.

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  • If it's a kernel module, then I assume the code is GPL licensed, so why don't you share a link to the code?
    – user123570
    May 7, 2017 at 19:23
  • @einonm Well, the question was more about, how to debug code at kernel space, than fixing this particular issue.
    – deuseux12
    May 7, 2017 at 19:27

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The simplest thing is to add a few calls to printk to the code and recompile the module. For more debugging options, see chapter 4, Debugging Techniques in Linux Device Drivers, Third Edition. The book is a bit old already, but still relevant.

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  • The problem is that the function which fails is in <linux/netdev.h>, so I can't really add some printk() there. I've been following the book, but as you said, it's quite old and must of the stuff is obsolete.
    – deuseux12
    May 7, 2017 at 17:59
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    The register_netdevice function is defined in the C file net/core/dev.c. Yes, the book is old, but there are several repositories on Github that are trying to keep the sample source code from the book up to date. For example: github.com/martinezjavier/ldd3. May 7, 2017 at 18:09

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