linux-kernel - Re: linux-next - request_module_nowait() breaks iptables and iwl3945

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Date:	Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:27:15 -0400
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Cc:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: linux-next - request_module_nowait() breaks iptables and iwl3945

On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:27:58 +1030, Rusty Russell said:
> On Monday 16 March 2009 12:28:04 Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote:
> > On recent linux-next, iptables and iwl3945 would fail to load
> Please send .config; I can't reproduce this here.

Attached are 2 .config's - config.gz is my usual laptop config, and
config-minimal.gz is the stripped-down version I was using while bisecting.

The failure mode was *really* odd - I could start up
iptables once, and get *one* error message about being unable to initialize
table 'filter' - subsequent attempts would all fail further along:

[root@...ing-police ~]# /etc/init.d/iptables start
iptables: Applying firewall rules: 
iptables-restore v1.4.2: iptables-restore: unable to initialize table 'filter'

Error occurred at line: 3
Try `iptables-restore -h' or 'iptables-restore --help' for more information.
[root@...ing-police ~]# /etc/init.d/iptables start
iptables: Applying firewall rules: iptables-restore: line 110 failed

Yell if you want any instrumentation added, strace, etc - I still have all
the pieces needed to dig into it further...

I didn't capture the output of iwl3945 loading, because I was expecting that
to be some *other* issue - reverting the problematic commit fixed 3945 before
I had started digging further into it.

Download attachment "config-minimal.gz" of type "application/x-gzip " (13107 bytes)

Download attachment "config.gz" of type "application/x-gzip " (15280 bytes)

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