[Note:
10 new reports in the last 10 days, but fortunately we're fixing them faster
than they're being reported.]
This message contains a list of some regressions introduced between 2.6.30 and
2.6.31, for which there are no fixes in the mainline I know of. If any of them
have been fixed already, please let me know.
If you know of any other unresolved regressions introduced between 2.6.30
and 2.6.31, please let me know either and I'll add them to the list.
Also, please let me know if any of the entries below are invalid.
Each entry from the list will be sent additionally in an automatic reply to
this message with CCs to the people involved in reporting and handling the
issue.
Listed regressions statistics:
Date Total Pending Unresolved
----------------------------------------
2009-10-12 161 45 35
2009-10-02 151 49 42
2009-09-06 123 34 27
2009-08-26 108 33 26
2009-08-20 102 32 29
2009-08-10 89 27 24
2009-08-02 76 36 28
2009-07-27 70 51 43
2009-07-07 35 25 21
2009-06-29 22 22 15
Unresolved regressions
----------------------
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14391
Subject : use after free of struct powernow_k8_data
Submitter : Michal Schmidt <[email protected]>
Date : 2009-09-24 14:51 (18 days old)
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125380383515615&w=4
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14388
Subject : keyboard under X with 2.6.31
Submitter : Frédéric L. W. Meunier <[email protected]>
Date : 2009-10-07 20:19 (5 days old)
First-Bad-Commit: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e043e42bdb66885b3ac10d27a01ccb9972e2b0a3
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125494753228217&w=4
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14385
Subject : DMAR regression in 2.6.31 leads to ext4 corruption?
Submitter : Andy Isaacson <[email protected]>
Date : 2009-10-08 23:56 (4 days old)
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125504643703877&w=4
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14377
Subject : "conservative" cpufreq governor broken
Submitter : Steven Noonan <[email protected]>
Date : 2009-10-05 16:32 (7 days old)
First-Bad-Commit: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=f2e21c9610991e95621a81407cdbab881226419b
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125476067108252&w=4
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14329
Subject : Sata disk doesn't wake up after S3 suspend
Submitter : <[email protected]>
Date : 2009-10-05 22:58 (7 days old)
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14309
Subject : MCA on hp rx8640
Submitter : Andrew Patterson <[email protected]>
Date : 2009-09-29 17:20 (13 days old)
First-Bad-Commit: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=db8be50c4307dac2b37305fc59c8dc0f978d09ea
References : http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-usb/msg22799.html
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14294
Subject : kernel BUG at drivers/ide/ide-disk.c:187
Submitter : Santiago Garcia Mantinan <[email protected]>
Date : 2009-09-30 11:05 (12 days old)
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125430926311466&w=4
Handled-By : David Miller <[email protected]>
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14267
Subject : Disassociating atheros wlan
Submitter : Kristoffer Ericson <[email protected]>
Date : 2009-09-24 10:16 (18 days old)
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125378723723384&w=4
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14266
Subject : regression in page writeback
Submitter : Shaohua Li <[email protected]>
Date : 2009-09-22 5:49 (20 days old)
First-Bad-Commit: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=d7831a0bdf06b9f722b947bb0c205ff7d77cebd8
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125359858117176&w=4
Handled-By : Wu Fengguang <[email protected]>
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14265
Subject : ifconfig: page allocation failure. order:5, mode:0x8020 w/ e100
Submitter : Karol Lewandowski <[email protected]>
Date : 2009-09-15 12:05 (27 days old)
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125301636509517&w=4
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14264
Subject : ehci problem - mouse dead on scroll
Submitter : Volker Armin Hemmann <[email protected]>
Date : 2009-09-12 7:46 (30 days old)
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125274202707893&w=4
Handled-By : Alan Stern <[email protected]>
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14257
Subject : Not able to boot on 32 bit System
Submitter : Rishikesh <[email protected]>
Date : 2009-09-21 15:25 (21 days old)
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125354604314412&w=4
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14256
Subject : kernel BUG at fs/ext3/super.c:435
Submitter : Mikael Pettersson <[email protected]>
Date : 2009-09-21 7:29 (21 days old)
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125351816109264&w=4
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14252
Subject : WARNING: at include/linux/skbuff.h:1382 w/ e1000
Submitter : Stephan von Krawczynski <[email protected]>
Date : 2009-09-20 11:26 (22 days old)
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125344599006033&w=4
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14249
Subject : BUG: oops in gss_validate on 2.6.31
Submitter : Bastian Blank <[email protected]>
Date : 2009-09-16 10:29 (26 days old)
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125309700417283&w=4
Handled-By : Trond Myklebust <[email protected]>
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14248
Subject : 2.6.31 wireless: WARNING: at net/wireless/ibss.c:34
Submitter : Jurriaan <[email protected]>
Date : 2009-09-13 7:32 (29 days old)
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125282721113553&w=4
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14204
Subject : MCE prevent booting on my computer(pentium iii @500Mhz)
Submitter : GNUtoo <[email protected]>
Date : 2009-09-21 20:36 (21 days old)
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14185
Subject : Oops in driversbasefirmware_class
Submitter : <[email protected]>
Date : 2009-09-17 05:09 (25 days old)
First-Bad-Commit: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=6e03a201bbe8137487f340d26aa662110e324b20
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14181
Subject : b43 causes panic at ifconfig down / shutdown
Submitter : Jeremy Huddleston <[email protected]>
Date : 2009-09-15 18:34 (27 days old)
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14157
Subject : end_request: I/O error, dev cciss/cXdX, sector 0
Submitter : <[email protected]>
Date : 2009-09-11 07:42 (31 days old)
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14143
Subject : OOPS when setting nr_requests for md devices
Submitter : aCaB <[email protected]>
Date : 2009-09-08 08:48 (34 days old)
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14141
Subject : order 2 page allocation failures in iwlagn
Submitter : Frans Pop <[email protected]>
Date : 2009-09-06 7:40 (36 days old)
First-Bad-Commit: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=2ff05b2b4eac2e63d345fc731ea151a060247f53
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125222287419691&w=4
http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/10/2/86
http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/10/5/24
Handled-By : Pekka Enberg <[email protected]>
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14114
Subject : Tuning a saa7134 based card is broken in kernel 2.6.31-rc7
Submitter : Tsvety Petrov <[email protected]>
Date : 2009-09-03 21:06 (39 days old)
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14090
Subject : WARNING: at fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c:394
Submitter : Joerg Platte <[email protected]>
Date : 2009-08-30 15:21 (43 days old)
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14070
Subject : lockdep warning triggered by dup_fd
Submitter : Bart Van Assche <[email protected]>
Date : 2009-08-23 09:36 (50 days old)
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/8/23/8
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14058
Subject : Oops in fsnotify
Submitter : Grant Wilson <[email protected]>
Date : 2009-08-20 15:48 (53 days old)
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125078450923133&w=4
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14013
Subject : hd don't show up
Submitter : Tim Blechmann <[email protected]>
Date : 2009-08-14 8:26 (59 days old)
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125023842514480&w=4
Handled-By : Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13987
Subject : Received NMI interrupt at resume
Submitter : Christian Casteyde <[email protected]>
Date : 2009-08-15 07:55 (58 days old)
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13943
Subject : WARNING: at net/mac80211/mlme.c:2292 with ath5k
Submitter : Fabio Comolli <[email protected]>
Date : 2009-08-06 20:15 (67 days old)
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124958978600600&w=4
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13941
Subject : x86 Geode issue
Submitter : Martin-Éric Racine <[email protected]>
Date : 2009-08-03 12:58 (70 days old)
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124930434732481&w=4
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13906
Subject : Huawei E169 GPRS connection causes Ooops
Submitter : Clemens Eisserer <[email protected]>
Date : 2009-08-04 09:02 (69 days old)
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13836
Subject : suspend script fails, related to stdout?
Submitter : Tomas M. <[email protected]>
Date : 2009-07-17 21:24 (87 days old)
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124785853811667&w=4
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13809
Subject : oprofile: possible circular locking dependency detected
Submitter : Jerome Marchand <[email protected]>
Date : 2009-07-22 13:35 (82 days old)
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13733
Subject : 2.6.31-rc2: irq 16: nobody cared
Submitter : Niel Lambrechts <[email protected]>
Date : 2009-07-06 18:32 (98 days old)
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124690524027166&w=4
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13645
Subject : NULL pointer dereference at (null) (level2_spare_pgt)
Submitter : poornima nayak <[email protected]>
Date : 2009-06-17 17:56 (117 days old)
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/6/17/194
Regressions with patches
------------------------
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14301
Subject : WARNING: at net/ipv4/af_inet.c:154
Submitter : Ralf Hildebrandt <[email protected]>
Date : 2009-09-30 12:24 (12 days old)
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125431350218137&w=4
Handled-By : Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Patch : http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/52743/
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14275
Subject : kernel>=2.6.31: ahci.c: do not force unconditionally sb600 to 32bit dma any more?
Submitter : gabriele balducci <[email protected]>
Date : 2009-09-30 15:02 (12 days old)
Patch : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14275#c0
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14261
Subject : e1000e jumbo frames no longer work: 'Unsupported MTU setting'
Submitter : Nix <[email protected]>
Date : 2009-09-26 11:16 (16 days old)
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125396433321342&w=4
Handled-By : Alexander Duyck <[email protected]>
Patch : http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/50277/
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14258
Subject : Memory leak in SCSI initialization
Submitter : Tetsuo Handa <[email protected]>
Date : 2009-09-22 4:18 (20 days old)
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125359311312243&w=4
Handled-By : Michael Ellerman <[email protected]>
James Bottomley <[email protected]>
Patch : http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/51412/
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14253
Subject : Oops in driversbasefirmware_class
Submitter : Lars Ericsson <[email protected]>
Date : 2009-09-16 20:44 (26 days old)
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/9/16/461
Handled-By : Frederik Deweerdt <[email protected]>
Patch : http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/49914/
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14137
Subject : usb console regressions
Submitter : Jason Wessel <[email protected]>
Date : 2009-09-05 21:08 (37 days old)
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125218501310512&w=4
Handled-By : Jason Wessel <[email protected]>
Patch : http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/45953/
http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/45952/
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14129
Subject : 2.6.31 regression - pci_get_slot oops, udev boot hang - toshiba X200
Submitter : chepioq <[email protected]>
Date : 2009-09-06 07:01 (36 days old)
Handled-By : Alex Chiang <[email protected]>
Rafael J. Wysocki <[email protected]>
Patch : http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/51834/
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14017
Subject : _end symbol missing from Symbol.map
Submitter : Hannes Reinecke <[email protected]>
Date : 2009-08-13 6:45 (60 days old)
First-Bad-Commit: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=091e52c3551d3031343df24b573b770b4c6c72b6
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125014649102253&w=4
Handled-By : Hannes Reinecke <[email protected]>
Patch : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125014649102253&w=4
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13948
Subject : ath5k broken after suspend-to-ram
Submitter : Johannes Stezenbach <[email protected]>
Date : 2009-08-07 21:51 (66 days old)
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124968192727854&w=4
Handled-By : Nick Kossifidis <[email protected]>
Patch : http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/38550/
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13940
Subject : 2.6.31-rc1 - iwlagn and sky2 stopped working when ACPI enabled - Toshiba U400-17b, Acer Aspire 8935G
Submitter : Ricardo Jorge da Fonseca Marques Ferreira <[email protected]>
Date : 2009-08-07 22:33 (66 days old)
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124968457731107&w=4
Handled-By : Len Brown <[email protected]>
Patch : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=23280
For details, please visit the bug entries and follow the links given in
references.
As you can see, there is a Bugzilla entry for each of the listed regressions.
There also is a Bugzilla entry used for tracking the regressions introduced
between 2.6.30 and 2.6.31, unresolved as well as resolved, at:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13615
Please let me know if there are any Bugzilla entries that should be added to
the list in there.
Thanks,
Rafael
On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 00:41 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>
>
> Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14309
> Subject : MCA on hp rx8640
> Submitter : Andrew Patterson <[email protected]>
> Date : 2009-09-29 17:20 (13 days old)
> First-Bad-Commit: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=db8be50c4307dac2b37305fc59c8dc0f978d09ea
> References : http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-usb/msg22799.html
>
Linus fixed this one with d93a8f829fe1d2f3002f2c6ddb553d12db420412. It
also looks like a duplicate of
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14374
Thanks,
Andrew
--
Andrew Patterson
Hewlett-Packard
On 10/11/2009 05:41 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> [Note:
> 10 new reports in the last 10 days, but fortunately we're fixing them faster
> than they're being reported.]
> Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14181
> Subject : b43 causes panic at ifconfig down / shutdown
> Submitter : Jeremy Huddleston <[email protected]>
> Date : 2009-09-15 18:34 (27 days old)
A patch to fix this one is in the hands of the OP. It should be tested
within the next couple of days.
Larry
On Monday 12 October 2009, Frederik Deweerdt wrote:
> Hi Rafael,
>
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 12:41:30AM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14185
> > Subject : Oops in driversbasefirmware_class
> > Submitter : <[email protected]>
> > Date : 2009-09-17 05:09 (25 days old)
> > First-Bad-Commit: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=6e03a201bbe8137487f340d26aa662110e324b20
> >
> >
> > Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14253
> > Subject : Oops in driversbasefirmware_class
> > Submitter : Lars Ericsson <[email protected]>
> > Date : 2009-09-16 20:44 (26 days old)
> > References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/9/16/461
> > Handled-By : Frederik Deweerdt <[email protected]>
> > Patch : http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/49914/
> >
> Those two are refering to the same bug.
Thanks, I closed #14185 as a duplicate of #14253.
Best,
Rafael
On Monday 12 October 2009, Andrew Patterson wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 00:41 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> >
> >
> > Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14309
> > Subject : MCA on hp rx8640
> > Submitter : Andrew Patterson <[email protected]>
> > Date : 2009-09-29 17:20 (13 days old)
> > First-Bad-Commit: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=db8be50c4307dac2b37305fc59c8dc0f978d09ea
> > References : http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-usb/msg22799.html
> >
>
> Linus fixed this one with d93a8f829fe1d2f3002f2c6ddb553d12db420412. It
> also looks like a duplicate of
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14374
Thanks, I closed #14309 as a duplicate of #14374 that's already closed.
Best,
Rafael
Hi Rafael,
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 12:41:30AM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14185
> Subject : Oops in driversbasefirmware_class
> Submitter : <[email protected]>
> Date : 2009-09-17 05:09 (25 days old)
> First-Bad-Commit: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=6e03a201bbe8137487f340d26aa662110e324b20
>
>
> Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14253
> Subject : Oops in driversbasefirmware_class
> Submitter : Lars Ericsson <[email protected]>
> Date : 2009-09-16 20:44 (26 days old)
> References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/9/16/461
> Handled-By : Frederik Deweerdt <[email protected]>
> Patch : http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/49914/
>
Those two are refering to the same bug.
Regards,
Frederik
On Monday 12 October 2009, Larry Finger wrote:
> On 10/11/2009 05:41 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > [Note:
> > 10 new reports in the last 10 days, but fortunately we're fixing them faster
> > than they're being reported.]
>
> > Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14181
> > Subject : b43 causes panic at ifconfig down / shutdown
> > Submitter : Jeremy Huddleston <[email protected]>
> > Date : 2009-09-15 18:34 (27 days old)
>
> A patch to fix this one is in the hands of the OP. It should be tested
> within the next couple of days.
Great, thanks for the update.
Rafael