Re: 2.6.12-rc6-mm1 oops on startup.

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

James Courtier-Dutton <James@superbug.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Ok, it now boots, but I now get a new problem.
>  after "modprobe yenta-socket", and then "cat /proc/iomem" I get the
>  attached kernel segfault.
> 
>  Extract below:
>  Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000010
>   printing eip:
>  c0126fc0
>  *pde = 00000000
>  Oops: 0000 [#1]
>  PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
>  Modules linked in: yenta_socket rsrc_nonstatic pcmcia_core usbcore
>  CPU:    0
>  EIP:    0060:[<c0126fc0>]    Not tainted VLI
>  EFLAGS: 00010297   (2.6.12-mm1)
>  EIP is at r_show+0x30/0x90
>  eax: 00000000   ebx: 00000008   ecx: 00000003   edx: c03ca87c
>  esi: f7fafaa8   edi: f4f7af78   ebp: f4fabf28   esp: f4fabef8
>  ds: 007b   es: 007b   ss: 0068
>  Process cat (pid: 1750, threadinfo=f4faa000 task=f4f55af0)
>  Stack: f4f7af78 c0389e8b 00000000 c038d590 00000008 3fffc000 00000008
>  3fffffff
>         c03883a3 00000000 f4f7af78 f7fafaa8 f4fabf60 c018b702 f4f7af78
>  f7fafaa8
>         f4fabf44 000001a7 00000000 0000000d 00000000 0000000c 00000000
>  00000400
>  Call Trace:
>   [<c01040df>] show_stack+0x7f/0xa0
>   [<c0104284>] show_registers+0x164/0x1e0
>   [<c01044cd>] die+0x10d/0x1a0
>   [<c011749c>] do_page_fault+0x4bc/0x6b8
>   [<c0103d0f>] error_code+0x4f/0x54
>   [<c018b702>] seq_read+0x242/0x2f0
>   [<c01667f3>] vfs_read+0xe3/0x1b0
>   [<c0166bcb>] sys_read+0x4b/0x80
>   [<c01031f9>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
>  Code: 53 83 ec 24 8b 7d 08 8b 75 0c 8b 57 40 8b 42 08 3d 00 00 01 00 19
>  db 89 f0 83 e3 fc 31 c9 83 c3 08 8d 76 00 8d bc 27 00 00 00 00 <8b> 40
>  10 39 d0 74 06 41 83 f9 04 7e f3 8b 06 ba 85 9e 38 c0 85

Me too.  binary search indicates that it's introduced by
gregkh-pci-pci-assign-unassigned-resources.patch.

Unfortunately that patch does three seemingly-unrelated things and none of
them are directly related to /proc handling.  Splitting the patch into
three pieces indicates that this hunk alone is sufficient to cause the
crash:


diff -puN arch/i386/pci/common.c~a arch/i386/pci/common.c
--- 25/arch/i386/pci/common.c~a	2005-06-23 16:48:42.000000000 -0700
+++ 25-akpm/arch/i386/pci/common.c	2005-06-23 16:48:42.000000000 -0700
@@ -165,6 +165,7 @@ static int __init pcibios_init(void)
 	if ((pci_probe & PCI_BIOS_SORT) && !(pci_probe & PCI_NO_SORT))
 		pcibios_sort();
 #endif
+	pci_assign_unassigned_resources();
 	return 0;
 }
 
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