2001-12-08 19:04:23

by pHilipp Zabel

Subject: 2.4.17-pre4/5 card services oops

Hi!

When I insert any pcmcia card (cardmgr 3.1.29 running), I get the
following Oops on a Dell Inspiron 8000 with Debian sid and
linux kernel 2.4.17-pre4 or 2.4.17-pre5 installed (this does not
happen with 2.4.16):

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cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff:<1>Unable to handle kernel NULL
pointer dereference at virtual address 00000004
printing eip:
c01178e1
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010:[<c01178e1>] Tainted: P
EFLAGS: 00010206
eax: 00000000 ebx: cde93988 ecx: 00000000 edx: a00fffff
esi: a00fffff edi: a0000000 ebp: 00100000 esp: cde93968
ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Process cardmgr (pid: 847, stackpage=cde93000)
Stack: cde93988 a0000000 a0000000 c01179b4 00000000 cde93988 ce0e04a0
a0000000
00000200 a0000000 a00fffff ce0e04a0 d0940745 a0000000 00100000
d094074e
00000000 a0000000 00100000 ce0e04a0 00000000 ce988000 d093e4c4
a1000000
Call Trace: [<c01179b4>] [<d0940745>] [<d094074e>] [<d093e4c4>]
[<d09408db>]
[<d093e344>] [<d093e4c4>] [<d093e4c4>] [<d0940890>] [<d093e344>]
[<d093e4c4>]
[<d093e4c4>] [<d0940890>] [<d093e344>] [<d093e4c4>] [<d0940935>]
[<d093e344>]
[<d093e4c4>] [<d093e532>] [<d093e344>] [<d093e4c4>] [<d093e0cc>]
[<d093e722>]
[<d093ebfb>] [<d093ea1a>] [<d09400b5>] [<d084bd30>] [<d0854e77>]
[<d0856d90>]
[<d08570b4>] [<d0857a15>] [<d084e65c>] [<d0860eef>] [<d0861287>]
[<d0951fcf>]
[<c012f2ec>] [<d085eca3>] [<d085f54f>] [<d0869328>] [<d0850a1c>]
[<d085ead8>]
[<d08524d4>] [<d086686f>] [<d0866cd5>] [<c0111280>] [<c01289a7>]
[<c01289c2>]
[<c013970a>] [<c0139a08>] [<c0139a42>] [<c0139e9f>] [<d0951ad7>]
[<c0139057>]
[<c0106b0b>]

Code: 3b 79 04 72 05 3b 71 08 76 05 89 c8 eb 29 90 8d 51 18 8b 02

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a lsmod just before inserting a card revealed this:

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Module Size Used by Tainted: P
ds 6504 2
yenta_socket 8424 2
pcmcia_core 38760 0 [ds yenta_socket]
rtc 5536 0 (autoclean)
nls_cp437 4384 2 (autoclean)
nls_iso8859-1 2880 3 (autoclean)
ntfs 47016 1 (autoclean)
reiserfs 151120 1 (autoclean)
i8k 5192 0 (unused)
ospm_thermal 10680 0 (unused)
ospm_processor 9204 0 (unused)
ospm_button 4588 0 (unused)
ospm_battery 7472 0 (unused)
ospm_ac_adapter 3296 0 (unused)
maestro3 24752 0 (unused)
ac97_codec 9568 0 [maestro3]
soundcore 3500 2 [maestro3]
vfat 9324 2
fat 29216 0 [vfat]

`---------------------------------------------------------------

Please tell me, if I forgot anything of importance.

grusz
pHilipp

2001-12-08 23:55:22

by pHilipp Zabel

Subject: Re: 2.4.17-pre4/5 card services oops

Am Sam, 2001-12-08 um 20.00 schrieb pHilipp Zabel:

> When I insert any pcmcia card (cardmgr 3.1.29 running), I get the
> following Oops on a Dell Inspiron 8000 with Debian sid and
> linux kernel 2.4.17-pre4 or 2.4.17-pre5 installed (this does not
> happen with 2.4.16):

Quoting myself - uh-oh...
I'm sorry, this seems to be fixed in pre6.

grusz
pHilipp

2001-12-09 00:02:52

by Kirk Reiser

Subject: 2.5.1pre7 vt_kern.h small patch, take 3

--- linux/include/linux/vt_kern.h~ Wed Dec 5 10:12:17 2001
+++ linux/include/linux/vt_kern.h Wed Dec 5 10:45:20 2001
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
*/

#include <linux/config.h>
+#include <linux/tty.h> /* needed for MAX_NR_CONSOLES */
#include <linux/vt.h>
#include <linux/kd.h>


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