Bug 59151
| Summary: | Device 'efifb.0' does not have a release() function, it is broken and must be fixed. | ||
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| Product: | Drivers | Reporter: | Erich Luckerbauer (moleculecolony) |
| Component: | Console/Framebuffers | Assignee: | James Simmons (jsimmons) |
| Status: | NEW --- | ||
| Severity: | low | CC: | stuartheccleston, the.ridikulus.rat |
| Priority: | P1 | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Kernel Version: | 3.9.4-1 | Subsystem: | |
| Regression: | No | Bisected commit-id: | |
| Attachments: | lspci -vvnn ++ dmidecode | ||
Created attachment 103121 [details] lspci -vvnn ++ dmidecode This error message appears on every boot, without causing noticeable problems. I found out that it has to do with having USB optimization enabled/disabled in the BIOS. When it's enabled, that is, USB is not being made available during POST, I get this error message, otherwise not. Board: Intel DP55KG Mai 31 16:53:04 mitlDing kernel: efifb: invalid framebuffer address Mai 31 16:53:04 mitlDing kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------ Mai 31 16:53:04 mitlDing kernel: WARNING: at drivers/base/core.c:228 device_release+0x92/0xa0() Mai 31 16:53:04 mitlDing kernel: Hardware name: Mai 31 16:53:04 mitlDing kernel: Device 'efifb.0' does not have a release() function, it is broken and must be fixed. Mai 31 16:53:04 mitlDing kernel: Modules linked in: Mai 31 16:53:04 mitlDing kernel: Pid: 1, comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.9.4-1-ARCH #1 Mai 31 16:53:04 mitlDing kernel: Call Trace: Mai 31 16:53:04 mitlDing kernel: [<ffffffff81352d62>] ? device_release+0x92/0xa0 Mai 31 16:53:04 mitlDing kernel: [<ffffffff810580b0>] warn_slowpath_common+0x70/0xa0 Mai 31 16:53:04 mitlDing kernel: [<ffffffff8105812c>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x4c/0x50 Mai 31 16:53:04 mitlDing kernel: [<ffffffff81352d62>] device_release+0x92/0xa0 Mai 31 16:53:04 mitlDing kernel: [<ffffffff81271c7e>] kobject_release+0x7e/0x1b0 Mai 31 16:53:04 mitlDing kernel: [<ffffffff81904f43>] ? efifb_probe+0x4a8/0x4a8 Mai 31 16:53:04 mitlDing kernel: [<ffffffff81271dd8>] kobject_put+0x28/0x60 Mai 31 16:53:04 mitlDing kernel: [<ffffffff813530a7>] put_device+0x17/0x20 Mai 31 16:53:04 mitlDing kernel: [<ffffffff81359740>] platform_device_unregister+0x20/0x30 Mai 31 16:53:04 mitlDing kernel: [<ffffffff819051c4>] efifb_init+0x281/0x28a Mai 31 16:53:04 mitlDing kernel: [<ffffffff81904f43>] ? efifb_probe+0x4a8/0x4a8 Mai 31 16:53:04 mitlDing kernel: [<ffffffff8100210a>] do_one_initcall+0x10a/0x160 Mai 31 16:53:04 mitlDing kernel: [<ffffffff818d5037>] kernel_init_freeable+0x15b/0x1dc Mai 31 16:53:04 mitlDing kernel: [<ffffffff818d4881>] ? do_early_param+0x88/0x88 Mai 31 16:53:04 mitlDing kernel: [<ffffffff814b43b0>] ? rest_init+0x90/0x90 Mai 31 16:53:04 mitlDing kernel: [<ffffffff814b43be>] kernel_init+0xe/0x190 Mai 31 16:53:04 mitlDing kernel: [<ffffffff814d9dec>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0 Mai 31 16:53:04 mitlDing kernel: [<ffffffff814b43b0>] ? rest_init+0x90/0x90 Mai 31 16:53:04 mitlDing kernel: ---[ end trace 88282399491fd3ea ]--- With USB optimization disabled it looks like this: efifb: probing for efifb efifb: framebuffer at 0xe0000000, mapped to 0xffffc90000780000, using 1876k, total 1875k efifb: mode is 800x600x32, linelength=3200, pages=1 efifb: scrolling: redraw efifb: Truecolor: size=8:8:8:8, shift=24:16:8:0 Telling on kernel commandline to use another framebuffer or simply vga doesn't help. uname -r 3.9.4-1-ARCH Outputs of lspci -vvnn and dmidecode are added.