Most recent kernel where this bug did not occur:2.6.14 rc3 mm1 Distribution:SLES 9 sp2 Hardware Environment:xseries x370 Software Environment:2.6.14 rc5 mm1 Problem Description: During the bootup process I get an oops - io scheduler cfq registered<4>logips2pp: Detected unknown logitech mouse model 1 Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000064 printing eip: c02874e0 *pde = 004a8001 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP last sysfs file: Modules linked in: CPU: 4 EIP: 0060:[<c02874e0>] Not tainted VLI EFLAGS: 00010286 (2.6.14-rc5-mm1) input: PS/2 Logitech Mouse//class/input as input2 EIP is at elevator_put+0x0/0x30 eax: 00000000 ebx: 00000000 ecx: c04ede40 edx: 00000000 esi: c966fe0c edi: c03f6d50 ebp: c029be40 esp: dfe41f5c ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Process swapper (pid: 1, threadinfo=dfe40000 task=dfe00a90) Stack: c0287677 c966fe0c ffffffff c03f6d50 c028a829 000000c0 fffffff4 00000000 00000008 c0486a8b c966256c c039d990 00000007 c03a00ef c03f6d14 c049b70c 00000000 00000000 00000000 c0466aa3 00000000 dfe40000 00000000 dfe40000 Call Trace: [<c0287677>] elevator_init+0x17/0xa0 [<c028a829>] blk_init_queue_node+0xc9/0x130 [<c0486a8b>] floppy_init+0xdb/0x5e0 [<c0466aa3>] do_initcalls+0x23/0xc0 [<c0100415>] init+0x105/0x240 [<c0100310>] init+0x0/0x240 [<c01029c5>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0x10 Code: 85 c0 74 12 8b 12 8b 02 0f 18 00 90 81 fa 84 64 3f c0 75 d7 eb 05 89 d3 8d 76 00 89 d8 5b 5e 5f c3 8d 76 00 8d bc 27 00 00 00 00 <8b> 50 64 85 d2 74 1b b8 00 e0 ff ff 21 e0 8b 40 10 c1 e0 07 8d <0>Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! Steps to reproduce: Boot with 2.6.14 rc5 mm1 kernel
Created attachment 6395 [details] bootup output
This is surely unrelated to the input code: looks like a block layer bug. Please attach the .config.
Where would I find the .config? Thanks.
Created attachment 6400 [details] .config file Here is the .config. Was not thinking during my last comment.
Allegedly this is fixed in Linus's current tree. Please test ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots/patch-2.6.14-git6.gz and update this report, thanks.
Moving out of input devices...