To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Regression 2.6.36 - driver rtl8169 crashes kernel, triggered by user app
Cc: romieu@fr.zoreil.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
From: Michael Monnerie <michael.monnerie@is.it-management.at>
Organization: it-management http://it-management.at
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 15:49:07 +0100
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I did not get any answer, so here again:

Dear list, I've hunted down a bug which does *NOT* occur in kernel=20
2.6.34.7-0.5-desktop from openSUSE 11.3, but crashes stock kernel 2.6.36=20
triggered by a user!

It's actually very simple. From my desktop (kernel 2.6.36) I "cd" to an=20
NFS4 share, where a xz compressed image of Win7-64.iso.xz is located.

# cd /q/iso-images

and then I try to uncompress it there (as user, not root!):

# xz -kv Win7-64.iso.xz

With kernel 2.6.34.7-0.5-desktop, this runs with ~41MiB/s without=20
problems.

With kernel 2.6.36, it runs at ~26MiB/s, and while doing so, dmesg shows=20
a lot of noise about r8169 complaining:
http://zmi.at/x/kernel2.6.36-crash86.jpg

Here are 2 pictures of different crashes:
http://zmi.at/x/kernel2.6.36-crash84.jpg
http://zmi.at/x/kernel2.6.36-crash85.jpg

Neither the dmesg-messages nor the crash happens with kernel=20
2.6.34.7-0.5-desktop as delivered by openSUSE 11.3, but it always fully=20
crashes 2.6.36. I've retried about 10 times, it *never* finished to=20
uncompress the ~3GB image. At around 500-1000MB the kernel was gone.

I'm sure someone knows how to fix it. :-)

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Michael Monnerie, Ing. BSc

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