linux-kernel - Re: [OOPS] bcm43xx oops on 2.6.20-rc1 on x86

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Message-ID: <4596D8DE.2030408@lwfinger.net>
Date:	Sat, 30 Dec 2006 15:23:42 -0600
From:	Larry Finger <larry.finger@...inger.net>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>, Aaron Sethman <androsyn@...box.org>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linville@...driver.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, jgarzik@...ox.com
Subject: Re: [OOPS] bcm43xx oops on 2.6.20-rc1 on x86_64

Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 03:15:28PM -0500, Aaron Sethman wrote:
>> Just was loading the bcm43xx module and got the following oops. Note that 
>> this card is one of the newer PCI-E cards.  If any other info is needed 
>> let me know.
> 
> Is this issue still present in 2.6.10-rc2-git1?
> 
> If yes, was 2.6.19 working fine?
> 
>> -Aaron
>>
>> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:0c:00.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
>> PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:0c:00.0 to 64
>> bcm43xx: Chip ID 0x4311, rev 0x1
>> bcm43xx: Number of cores: 4
>> bcm43xx: Core 0: ID 0x800, rev 0x11, vendor 0x4243
>> bcm43xx: Core 1: ID 0x812, rev 0xa, vendor 0x4243
>> bcm43xx: Core 2: ID 0x817, rev 0x3, vendor 0x4243
>> bcm43xx: Core 3: ID 0x820, rev 0x1, vendor 0x4243
>> bcm43xx: PHY connected
>> bcm43xx: Detected PHY: Version: 4, Type 2, Revision 8
>> bcm43xx: Detected Radio: ID: 2205017f (Manuf: 17f Ver: 2050 Rev: 2)
>> bcm43xx: Radio turned off
>> bcm43xx: Radio turned off
>> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000011 RIP:
>>  [<ffffffff88007793>] :ieee80211:ieee80211_wx_set_encode+0x14a/0x4a7
>> PGD 33a22067 PUD 3469b067 PMD 0
>> Oops: 0000 [1] SMP
>> CPU 0
>> Modules linked in: bcm43xx rng_core ieee80211softmac ieee80211 
>> ieee80211_crypt
>> Pid: 4088, comm: iwconfig Not tainted 2.6.20-rc1 #2
>> RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff88007793>]  [<ffffffff88007793>] 
>> :ieee80211:ieee80211_wx_set_encode+0x14a/0x4a7
>> RSP: 0018:ffff810032d3fc28  EFLAGS: 00010202
>> RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffff81003332ebf8 RCX: 0000000000000000
>> RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff810032d3fcd5
>> RBP: ffff81003332ebf8 R08: 0000000000000005 R09: ffff810032d3fc48
>> R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: ffff81003332e4c0
>> R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff810032d3fe58
>> FS:  00002b7863a2d6d0(0000) GS:ffffffff80697000(0000) 
>> knlGS:0000000000000000
>> CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
>> CR2: 0000000000000011 CR3: 0000000034270000 CR4: 00000000000026e0
>> Process iwconfig (pid: 4088, threadinfo ffff810032d3e000, task 
>> ffff810037c4f690)
>> Stack:  ffff81003d87ecc0 0000000000000000 0000000100000000 
>> ffffffff80290ede
>>  0000000000000404 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
>>  0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
>> Call Trace:
>>  [<ffffffff80290ede>] touch_atime+0xde/0x130
>>  [<ffffffff804f338b>] ioctl_standard_call+0x26b/0x3b0
>>  [<ffffffff8802baa0>] :bcm43xx:bcm43xx_wx_set_encoding+0x0/0x10
>>  [<ffffffff8025a029>] find_get_page+0x29/0x60
>>  [<ffffffff8025c684>] filemap_nopage+0x194/0x350
>>  [<ffffffff8802baa0>] :bcm43xx:bcm43xx_wx_set_encoding+0x0/0x10
>>  [<ffffffff804f3775>] wireless_process_ioctl+0x105/0x3d0
>>  [<ffffffff80267675>] __handle_mm_fault+0x465/0xad0
>>  [<ffffffff804e81d6>] dev_ioctl+0x346/0x3c0
>>  [<ffffffff803988f1>] __up_read+0x21/0xb0
>>  [<ffffffff804db750>] sock_ioctl+0x220/0x240
>>  [<ffffffff802885bf>] do_ioctl+0x2f/0xa0
>>  [<ffffffff802888d3>] vfs_ioctl+0x2a3/0x2e0
>>  [<ffffffff80288959>] sys_ioctl+0x49/0x80
>>  [<ffffffff8055184d>] error_exit+0x0/0x84
>>  [<ffffffff8020a03e>] system_call+0x7e/0x83
>>
>>
>> Code: 48 8b 40 10 48 85 c0 0f 84 01 01 00 00 48 8b 30 b9 04 00 00
>> RIP  [<ffffffff88007793>] :ieee80211:ieee80211_wx_set_encode+0x14a/0x4a7
>>  RSP <ffff810032d3fc28>
>> CR2: 0000000000000011

Any oops involving wireless extensions is due to 2.6.20-rc1 and -rc2 not having the fix for softmac
that is necessitated by the 2.6.20 changes in the work structure. The needed patch has now been
pushed by Jeff to Andrew and Linus, and should be in -rc3. In the meantime, it is attached.

Larry

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