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Date: Sun, 6 May 2007 13:08:21 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu>
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Subject: Re: 2.6.21-mm1
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On Sun, 06 May 2007 15:59:53 +0100 Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu> wrote:

> On 05/05/07 09:49, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.21/2.6.21-mm1/
> 
> I'm currently in the middle of a bisect over the last week of commits to linus' 
> tree, but I got the following with -mm1 that isn't showing up in the latest 
> 2.6.21-git:
> 
> [   15.644778] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/mutex.c:86
> [   15.644873] in_atomic():1, irqs_disabled():1
> [   15.644882] 2 locks held by modprobe/2765:
> [   15.644889]  #0:  (devlist_lock){--..}, at: [<b052dc7f>] mutex_lock+0x1f/0x30
> [   15.645058]  #1:  (modlist_lock){....}, at: [<b0147b1d>] __symbol_get+0x1d/0x90
> [   15.645207] irq event stamp: 11772
> [   15.645271] hardirqs last  enabled at (11771): [<b016d793>] slab_free+0xc3/0x200
> [   15.645289] hardirqs last disabled at (11772): [<b052f476>] _spin_lock_irqsave+0x16/0x60
> [   15.645364] softirqs last  enabled at (11216): [<b0125286>] __do_softirq+0x96/0xb0
> [   15.645439] softirqs last disabled at (11211): [<b01069f2>] do_softirq+0x82/0x100
> [   15.645517]  [<b0104f0a>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x30
> [   15.645586]  [<b0104f32>] show_trace+0x12/0x20
> [   15.645654]  [<b0105045>] dump_stack+0x15/0x20
> [   15.645665]  [<b011d6ad>] __might_sleep+0xcd/0xf0
> [   15.645737]  [<b052dc78>] mutex_lock+0x18/0x30
> [   15.645806]  [<b01b1b7c>] sysfs_create_link+0x6c/0x130
> [   15.645823]  [<b0146dba>] use_module+0x11a/0x170
> [   15.645892]  [<b0147b6c>] __symbol_get+0x6c/0x90
> [   15.645904]  [<f086ac2c>] dvb_init+0x98c/0xd70 [saa7134_dvb]
> [   15.645984]  [<b036861d>] mpeg_ops_attach+0x3d/0x50
> [   15.646058]  [<b0369109>] saa7134_ts_register+0x29/0x70
> [   15.646070]  [<f086f010>] dvb_register+0x10/0x12 [saa7134_dvb]
> [   15.646141]  [<b01491b7>] sys_init_module+0xf7/0x150
> [   15.646153]  [<b0104172>] sysenter_past_esp+0x5f/0x99
> [   15.646221]  =======================

Looks like a locking error in the DVB code.

> And this fantastic Oops:
> [   40.965119] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000080
> [   40.965252]  printing eip:
> [   40.965252] b016d4a5
> [   40.965300] *pde = 00000000
> [   40.965352] Oops: 0000 [#1]
> [   40.965467] PREEMPT 
> 
> It occurs when racoon is started so must be IPSEC related, I'll have more information 
> once I finish bisecting and merge -mm1 again.

Thanks.
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