Re: 2.6.19-rc6-mm2

From: Thomas Tuttle
Date: Tue Nov 28 2006 - 19:27:30 EST


I've found a couple of bugs so far...

1. I did `modprobe kvm' and then tried running a version of the KVM Qemu
compiled for a different kernel. My mistake. But I got an oops:

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000008
printing eip:
f91f9c3f
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000 [#1]
SMP
last sysfs file: /devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq
Modules linked in: kvm iTCO_wdt i8k rfcomm l2cap rtc sdhci mmc_block mmc_core hci_usb bluetooth b44 mii ohci1394 ieee1394 uhci_hcd ehci_hcd usbcore psmouse evdev i915 drm cpuid msr speedstep_centrino video thermal processor fan container button battery ac
CPU: 0
EIP: 0060:[<f91f9c3f>] Not tainted VLI
EFLAGS: 00010202 (2.6.19-rc6-mm1 #1)
EIP is at kvm_vmx_return+0xef/0x4d0 [kvm]
eax: e5490068 ebx: 00000000 ecx: 00000000 edx: e5491ca4
esi: 00000000 edi: e5490060 ebp: e5a4fde0 esp: e5a4fd54
ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068
Process qemu (pid: 24193, ti=e5a4e000 task=c2286a90 task.ti=e5a4e000)
Stack: 00000002 00000001 f7fe1278 00000002 b7f92000 e5490000 00000000 00000000
e5a4fdac 00000000 000000d8 f783a580 e5a4fdac c043b98a bfb93f7c f91fa020
e5a4fde0 bfb93f7c bfb93f7c f91fa0cb 000004f3 c03fb974 e5490000 00000000
Call Trace:
[<f91fa020>] kvm_dev_ioctl+0x0/0x1040 [kvm]
[<f91fa0cb>] kvm_dev_ioctl+0xab/0x1040 [kvm]
[<c03fb974>] error_code+0x7c/0x84
[<c011d469>] kmap_atomic+0xc9/0xe0
[<c018007b>] permission+0x2b/0xd0
[<c01700d8>] sys_swapon+0x978/0xaf0
[<c011d263>] kunmap_atomic+0x63/0x70
[<c011d469>] kmap_atomic+0xc9/0xe0
[<c011d263>] kunmap_atomic+0x63/0x70
[<c015cdbd>] get_page_from_freelist+0x27d/0x340
[<c011d469>] kmap_atomic+0xc9/0xe0
[<c011d263>] kunmap_atomic+0x63/0x70
[<c015cdbd>] get_page_from_freelist+0x27d/0x340
[<c0157af0>] find_get_page+0x20/0x60
[<c015a75c>] filemap_nopage+0x2dc/0x490
[<c0178a47>] do_sync_read+0xc7/0x110
[<c011d469>] kmap_atomic+0xc9/0xe0
[<c011d263>] kunmap_atomic+0x63/0x70
[<c0166386>] __handle_mm_fault+0x246/0x9c0
[<f91fa020>] kvm_dev_ioctl+0x0/0x1040 [kvm]
[<c030ae02>] scsi_host_alloc+0x202/0x2a0
[<c018430b>] do_ioctl+0x2b/0x90
[<c01843cc>] vfs_ioctl+0x5c/0x2b0
[<c018465d>] sys_ioctl+0x3d/0x70
[<c0103238>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
[<c030ae02>] scsi_host_alloc+0x202/0x2a0
=======================
Code: 14 0f 87 77 02 00 00 8b 0c b5 00 15 20 f9 85 c9 0f 84 68 02 00 00 89 ea 89 f8 ff d1 85 c0 0f 84 4c 02 00 00 89 f8 e8 31 e9 ff ff <65> a1 08 00 00 00 8b 40 04 8b 40 08 a8 04 0f 85 ae 02 00 00 e8
EIP: [<f91f9c3f>] kvm_vmx_return+0xef/0x4d0 [kvm] SS:ESP 0068:e5a4fd54
msrs: 2

Oh, and I get a ton of these messages with kvm:

rtc: lost some interrupts at 1024Hz.

2. I'm not sure if this bug is in the kernel, wireless tools, or the
ipw3945 driver, but I haven't changed the version of anything but the
kernel. When I do `iwconfig eth1 essid foobar' something drops the
last character of the essid, and a subsequent `iwconfig eth1' shows
"fooba" as the essid. And it's actually set as "fooba", since I had
to do `iwconfig eth1 essid MyUsualEssid_' (note underscore) to get on
to my usual network.

--Thomas Tuttle

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