linux-kernel - Re: REGRESSION for RT2561/RT61 in 2.6.32

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:03:29 +0100
From:	Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@...il.com>
To:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
CC:	Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@...il.com>, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
	Kernel development list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: REGRESSION for RT2561/RT61 in 2.6.32

On 12/06/09 23:12, Alan Stern wrote:
> Sorry for the late notice; I haven't tried running new kernels on this 
> computer in a long time.
> 
> When I use 2.6.32 (or indeed 2.6.32-rc1), it works fine up until the 
> point where the wireless card is ifconfig'ed.  Then not long afterward 
> (a few seconds to a minute) the system hangs.
> 
> # lspci -vv -s d.0
> 00:0d.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI
>         Subsystem: Linksys WMP54G ver 4.1
>         Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
>         Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=slow >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
>         Latency: 64, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
>         Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
>         Region 0: Memory at cfff0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32K]
>         Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
>                 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
>                 Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
>         Kernel driver in use: rt61pci
>         Kernel modules: rt61pci
> 
> While the system is hung, Alt-SysRq-keys still work but nothing else
> shows up when I type (using a VT console, not X).  However I don't know
> what debugging to do or what to look for.
> 
> Under 2.6.31 everything works okay.
> 

Hmmm, that's odd. I haven't seen any other reports on this (on full system hangs that is).

It would be very hard to figure out what is going wrong without any form of logging of
an oops or something. Is there any way you can find out if any oops information is present?

What does Alt-SysRq-l tell us, what are the CPU's doing when the system is hung?

---
Gertjan.
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/