Bug 9728 - Serverworks initialisation fails
Summary: Serverworks initialisation fails
Status: CLOSED CODE_FIX
Alias: None
Product: IO/Storage
Classification: Unclassified
Component: IDE (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: P1 blocking
Assignee: io_ide@kernel-bugs.osdl.org
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Depends on:
Blocks: 9243
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Reported: 2008-01-10 17:59 UTC by Trond Myklebust
Modified: 2008-01-11 12:31 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Kernel Version: 2.6.24-rc7-g88fb61e4
Subsystem:
Regression: Yes
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Looks like an unterminated DMI table... (331 bytes, patch)
2008-01-11 07:40 UTC, Trond Myklebust 		Details | Diff
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Description Trond Myklebust 2008-01-10 17:59:48 UTC 
Latest working kernel version: 2.6.24-rc7
Earliest failing kernel version: 2.6.24-rc7-g88fb61e4
Distribution: Fedora Core 7
Hardware Environment: Dell PowerEdge 2650
Software Environment:
Problem Description:

Oops when starting udev...

Starting udev: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 2d6d3a65
printing eip: c04e1af1 *pde = 00000000 
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP 
Modules linked in: evdev evbug rtc_cmos pcspkr floppy rtc_core rtc_lib shpchp pci_hotplug serverworks tg3 generic i2c_piix4 i2c_core

Pid: 1820, comm: modprobe Not tainted (2.6.24-rc7-g88fb61e4 #2)
EIP: 0060:[<c04e1af1>] EFLAGS: 00210286 CPU: 0
EIP is at strstr+0x11/0x34
EAX: 00000000 EBX: 2d6d3a65 ECX: ffffffff EDX: 2d6d3a65
ESI: c0513f75 EDI: 2d6d3a65 EBP: f65bccec ESP: f65bcce0
 DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0033 SS: 0068
Process modprobe (pid: 1820, ti=f65bc000 task=f795a2f0 task.ti=f65bc000)
Stack: f8921a44 00000001 00000000 f65bcd00 c054a0b9 f892e394 f892e080 f892e5f8 
       f65bcd20 f892133b c04d7c9d f892da80 f891d339 f892e394 f892e080 f892e5f8 
       f65bcd64 f891d11f f891d339 f891bc38 f892e080 00000000 00000001 00000000 
Call Trace:
 [<c0405170>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x2f
 [<c0405222>] show_stack_log_lvl+0x9d/0xa5
 [<c04052cd>] show_registers+0xa3/0x1df
 [<c040552a>] die+0x121/0x204
 [<c05b40dd>] do_page_fault+0x557/0x63e
 [<c05b278a>] error_code+0x72/0x78
 [<c054a0b9>] dmi_check_system+0x2f/0x58
 [<f892133b>] ide_acpi_init+0x28/0x195 [ide_core]
 [<f891d11f>] hwif_init+0x324/0x37c [ide_core]
 [<f891d29a>] ide_device_add+0x3b/0xa6 [ide_core]
 [<f891ee9a>] ide_setup_pci_device+0x36/0x40 [ide_core]
 [<f885f11c>] svwks_init_one+0x5b/0x62 [serverworks]
 [<c04eada1>] pci_device_probe+0x39/0x5b
 [<c05369a8>] driver_probe_device+0xe9/0x16a
 [<c0536b43>] __driver_attach+0x6c/0xa5
 [<c0535e92>] bus_for_each_dev+0x36/0x5b
 [<c05367f3>] driver_attach+0x19/0x1b
 [<c05361b1>] bus_add_driver+0x73/0x1aa
 [<c0536d29>] driver_register+0x67/0x6c
 [<c04eaef9>] __pci_register_driver+0x56/0x83
 [<f890f017>] svwks_ide_init+0x17/0x19 [serverworks]
 [<c0447f1e>] sys_init_module+0x15da/0x1715
 [<c04040b2>] sysenter_past_esp+0x5f/0xa5
 =======================
Code: e5 89 c1 89 c8 eb 06 80 38 00 74 07 40 4a 83 fa ff 75 f4 29 c8 5d c3 90 90 90 55 89 e5 57 56 53 89 c6 89 d3 31 c0 83 c9 ff 89 
EIP: [<c04e1af1>] strstr+0x11/0x34 SS:ESP 0068:f65bcce0
---[ end trace f0316f13333e9ff3 ]---
udevd-event[1819]: run_program: '/sbin/modprobe' abnormal exit


Steps to reproduce: Just boot...
Comment 1 Trond Myklebust 2008-01-11 07:40:19 UTC 
Created attachment 14413 [details]
Looks like an unterminated DMI table...

The following patch, which terminates the ide_acpi_dmi_table appears to
fix the problem.
Credit goes to Jeff Garzik...
Comment 2 Adrian Bunk 2008-01-11 12:31:01 UTC 
Fix is now as commit 7c48c56e9b5a51263269dd419cc32531db141340 in Linus' tree.
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