linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.37-rc7: Regression: b43: crashes in hwrng

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Date:	Wed, 5 Jan 2011 00:06:44 +0100
From:	"Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe" <Mario.Holbe@...Ilmenau.DE>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.hengli.com.au>
Cc:	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>,
	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Crypto Mailing List <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>,
	Harald Welte <HaraldWelte@...tech.com>,
	Michal Ludvig <michal@...ix.cz>
Subject: Re: 2.6.37-rc7: Regression: b43: crashes in hwrng_register()

On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 09:42:38AM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Can you please try this patch against vanilla to print out the
> raw output of xstore?

# ps -ef | grep 'rng[d]'
# cat /sys/devices/virtual/misc/hw_random/rng_available
via 
# hexdump -n 16 -C /dev/hwrng
00000000  00 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff  ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff  |................|
00000010
# 

kern.log meanwhile (lines numbered):
     1  Jan  4 23:56:40 ideapad kernel: [  151.714225] 0x0
     2  Jan  4 23:56:40 ideapad kernel: [  151.714236] 0xffffffff
     3  Jan  4 23:56:40 ideapad kernel: [  151.714239] 0x0
     4  Jan  4 23:56:40 ideapad kernel: [  151.714251] 0xffffffff
...
   233  Jan  4 23:56:40 ideapad kernel: [  151.715967] 0x0
   234  Jan  4 23:56:40 ideapad kernel: [  151.715980] 0xffffffff
   235  Jan  4 23:56:40 ideapad kernel: [  151.715982] 0x0
   236  Jan  4 23:56:40 ideapad kernel: [  151.715995] 0xffffffff
   237  Jan  4 23:56:40 ideapad kernel: [  151.720342] 0x0
   238  Jan  4 23:56:40 ideapad kernel: [  151.720347] 0x0
   239  Jan  4 23:56:40 ideapad kernel: [  151.720361] 0x0
   240  Jan  4 23:56:40 ideapad kernel: [  151.720365] 0x0
...
  8163  Jan  4 23:56:40 ideapad kernel: [  151.987049] 0x0
  8164  Jan  4 23:56:40 ideapad kernel: [  151.987061] 0x0
  8165  Jan  4 23:56:40 ideapad kernel: [  151.987063] 0x0
  8166  Jan  4 23:56:40 ideapad kernel: [  151.987075] 0x0


Mario
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