Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752705AbYKPMGT (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Nov 2008 07:06:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751795AbYKPMGG (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Nov 2008 07:06:06 -0500 Received: from ox1.aei.mpg.de ([194.94.224.6]:44305 "EHLO ox1.aei.mpg.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751770AbYKPMGE (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Nov 2008 07:06:04 -0500 Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 13:06:22 +0100 From: "Carlos R. Mafra" To: reinette chatre Cc: Lukas Hejtmanek , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" , "ipw3945-devel@lists.sourceforge.net" Subject: Re: iwlagn driver segfault in 2.6.28-rc3 Message-ID: <20081116120621.GA3937@localhost.aei.mpg.de> References: <20081111143410.GA4401@ics.muni.cz> <1226560041.1115.945.camel@rc-desk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1226560041.1115.945.camel@rc-desk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3898 Lines: 68 I just got (another) one of this too. The wireless connection suddenly lost the AP and I was waiting for ifplugd to reconnect to it again automatically, as it always does. After waiting for one or two minutes I decided to 'modprobe -r iwlagn' but this command never returned (it got stuck). Then I looked at the end of dmesg and found this: general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP last sysfs file: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_cur_freq CPU 1 Modules linked in: nls_iso8859_1 nls_cp437 vfat fat usb_storage xt_comment xt_policy xt_tcpmss xt_pkttype xt_owner xt_NFQUEUE xt_NFLOG xt_multiport xt_MARK xt_mark xt_mac xt_limit xt_length xt_iprange xt_hashlimit xt_dscp xt_dccp xt_CLASSIFY snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_seq_device snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss nvram ohci1394 ieee1394 snd_hda_intel uvcvideo snd_pcm sg sky2 i2c_i801 sr_mod iwlagn compat_ioctl32 snd_timer evdev videodev snd_page_alloc v4l1_compat snd_hwdep ata_piix ahci libata sd_mod scsi_mod uhci_hcd ohci_hcd ehci_hcd usbcore [last unloaded: scsi_wait_scan] Pid: 3163, comm: ifplugd Not tainted 2.6.28-rc4-keypress-00322-g58e20d8 #14 RIP: 0010:[] [] iwl_eeprom_query16+0xb/0x20 RSP: 0018:ffff88007b631a88 EFLAGS: 00010092 RAX: 7fff88007dfd5400 RBX: ffff88007d81a000 RCX: 00000000800600f0 RDX: 0000000000000cfc RSI: 0000000000000090 RDI: ffff88007dcc1940 RBP: ffff88007b631a88 R08: 0000000000000002 R09: ffff88007b631a5c R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000000080006 R13: ffff88007dcc1940 R14: ffff88007dcc29f8 R15: ffff88007d81a740 FS: 00007f7f93ef16f0(0000) GS:ffff88007f0686c0(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b CR2: 00002ad88fdfd000 CR3: 000000007d935000 CR4: 00000000000006a0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Process ifplugd (pid: 3163, threadinfo ffff88007b630000, task ffff88007b5ba980) Stack: ffff88007b631af8 ffffffffa0108526 ffff88007b631af8 ffffffffa00f3aaf 0000000000000000 ffff88007dcc2328 0000000000000292 0000000000000000 0143000000000000 ffff88007d81a000 ffff88007dcc1940 ffff88007dcc2328 Call Trace: [] iwl4965_nic_config+0xa6/0x380 [iwlagn] [] ? iwl4965_set_pwr_src+0x1cf/0x3d0 [iwlagn] [] iwl_hw_nic_init+0x11b/0x1d0 [] __iwl4965_up+0x1a7/0x720 [iwlagn] [] iwl4965_mac_start+0xd38/0x1570 [iwlagn] [] ? __wake_up_sync+0x55/0x70 [] ? sock_def_readable+0x6f/0x80 [] ? unix_dgram_sendmsg+0x463/0x4f0 [] ieee80211_open+0x328/0x830 [] ? sock_sendmsg+0xdb/0xf0 [] dev_open+0x64/0xc0 [] dev_change_flags+0x91/0x1b0 [] devinet_ioctl+0x5b3/0x750 [] inet_ioctl+0x6d/0x90 [] sock_ioctl+0xc5/0x240 [] vfs_ioctl+0x31/0x90 [] do_vfs_ioctl+0x32b/0x460 [] sys_ioctl+0x4a/0x80 [] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b Code: 48 8b 47 18 55 48 89 e5 48 8b 40 18 48 8b 00 ff 90 00 01 00 00 c9 c3 66 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 48 8b 87 98 22 01 00 55 48 89 e5 <0f> b6 54 06 01 0f b6 04 30 c9 c1 e2 08 09 d0 0f b7 c0 c3 66 90 RIP [] iwl_eeprom_query16+0xb/0x20 RSP ---[ end trace 28eaede31d178563 ]--- I tried to reboot but it got stuck too, so I had to SysRq+b. >From now on I will apply Reinette's patch and wait for it to happen again (but it seldom happens). -- 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/