Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752407AbaBMSVt (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Feb 2014 13:21:49 -0500 Received: from cam-admin0.cambridge.arm.com ([217.140.96.50]:44668 "EHLO cam-admin0.cambridge.arm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752039AbaBMSVs (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Feb 2014 13:21:48 -0500 Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 18:21:06 +0000 From: Will Deacon To: Ivaylo Dimitrov Cc: LKML , "linux@arm.linux.org.uk" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , Pavel Machek , Sebastian Reichel , Pali =?iso-8859-1?Q?Roh=E1r?= Subject: Re: [BISECTED] ssh - Received disconnect from x.x.x.x: 2: Bad packet length 3149594624 Message-ID: <20140213182105.GN13576@mudshark.cambridge.arm.com> References: <52FD08D1.3030405@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <52FD08D1.3030405@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Ivo, Thanks for bisecting this. On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 06:02:57PM +0000, Ivaylo Dimitrov wrote: > Since next-21012014 I started to receive "Received disconnect from > x.x.x.x: 2: Bad packet length 3149594624" errors when trying to > establish ssh session over wifi to my N900, running Maemo 5. I bisected > and it turned out that commit dce5c9e35bc4085bd33eccdb8c9ec5a643507a14 > "ARM: 7928/1: kconfig: select HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS for CPUv6+ > && MMU" is the first bad. There is nothing related in either dmesg or > syslog on the device. Reverting that commit on 3.14-rc1 make those > errors disappear. That's certainly unexpected. The n900 has (iirc) a Cortex-A8, which as an ARMv7 core, can perform unaligned accesses to normal, cacheable memory in hardware. Can you provide your .config and/or any information about your network chip please? There's a chance that the driver is doing something odd. Cheers, Will -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/