2.6.31-rc6-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.30

2.6.31-rc6-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.30

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

This message contains a list of some regressions from 2.6.30, for which there
are no fixes in the mainline I know of.  If any of them have been fixed already,
please let me know.

If you know of any other unresolved regressions from 2.6.30, please let me know
either and I'll add them to the list.  Also, please let me know if any of the
entries below are invalid.

Each entry from the list will be sent additionally in an automatic reply to
this message with CCs to the people involved in reporting and handling the
issue.


Listed regressions statistics:

  Date          Total  Pending  Unresolved
  ----------------------------------------
  2009-08-20      102       32          29
  2009-08-10       89       27          24
  2009-08-02       76       36          28
  2009-07-27       70       51          43
  2009-07-07       35       25          21
  2009-06-29       22       22          15


Unresolved regressions
----------------------

Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14018
Subject		: kernel freezes, inotify problem
Submitter	: Christoph Thielecke <christoph.thielecke@gmx.de>
Date		: 2009-08-19 12:48 (1 days old)
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125068616818353&w=4
Handled-By	: Eric Paris <eparis@parisplace.org>


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14016
Subject		: mm/ipw2200 regression
Submitter	: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Date		: 2009-08-15 16:56 (5 days old)
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125036437221408&w=4


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14015
Subject		: pty regressed again, breaking expect and gcc's testsuite
Submitter	: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Date		: 2009-08-14 23:41 (6 days old)
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125029329805643&w=4


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14014
Subject		: kernel bug at shut down
Submitter	: Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>
Date		: 2009-08-14 9:11 (6 days old)
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125024112418870&w=4


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14013
Subject		: hd don't show up
Submitter	: Tim Blechmann <tim@klingt.org>
Date		: 2009-08-14 8:26 (6 days old)
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125023842514480&w=4
Handled-By	: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14012
Subject		: latest git fried my x86_64 imac
Submitter	: Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com>
Date		: 2009-08-13 07:20 (7 days old)
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125014080427090&w=4


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14011
Subject		: Kernel paging request failed in kmem_cache_alloc
Submitter	: Matthias Dahl <ml_kernel@mortal-soul.de>
Date		: 2009-08-10 22:26 (10 days old)
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124993603825082&w=4


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14003
Subject		: Infinite loop on bootup while handling DMAR
Submitter	: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@arklinux.org>
Date		: 2009-08-18 14:54 (2 days old)


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14002
Subject		: WARNING: at net/ipv4/af_inet.c:154 inet_sock_destruct+0x164/0x1c0()
Submitter	: Ralf Hildebrandt <ralf.hildebrandt@charite.de>
Date		: 2009-08-18 12:37 (2 days old)


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13987
Subject		: Received NMI interrupt at resume
Submitter	: Christian Casteyde <casteyde.christian@free.fr>
Date		: 2009-08-15 07:55 (5 days old)


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13960
Subject		: rtl8187 not connect to wifi
Submitter	: okias <d.okias@gmail.com>
Date		: 2009-08-10 19:16 (10 days old)


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13950
Subject		: Oops when USB Serial disconnected while in use
Submitter	: Bruno Prémont <bonbons@linux-vserver.org>
Date		: 2009-08-08 17:47 (12 days old)
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124975432900466&w=4


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13947
Subject		: Libertas: Association request to the driver failed
Submitter	: Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de>
Date		: 2009-08-07 19:11 (13 days old)
First-Bad-Commit: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=57921c312e8cef72ba35a4cfe870b376da0b1b87
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124967234311481&w=4
Handled-By	: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13943
Subject		: WARNING: at net/mac80211/mlme.c:2292 with ath5k
Submitter	: Fabio Comolli <fabio.comolli@gmail.com>
Date		: 2009-08-06 20:15 (14 days old)
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124958978600600&w=4


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13942
Subject		: Troubles with AoE and uninitialized object
Submitter	: Bruno Prémont <bonbons@linux-vserver.org>
Date		: 2009-08-04 10:12 (16 days old)
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124938117104811&w=4


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13941
Subject		: x86 Geode issue
Submitter	: Martin-Éric Racine <q-funk@iki.fi>
Date		: 2009-08-03 12:58 (17 days old)
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124930434732481&w=4


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13940
Subject		: iwlagn and sky2 stopped working, ACPI-related
Submitter	: Ricardo Jorge da Fonseca Marques Ferreira <storm@sys49152.net>
Date		: 2009-08-07 22:33 (13 days old)
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124968457731107&w=4


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13935
Subject		: 2.6.31-rcX breaks Apple MightyMouse (Bluetooth version)
Submitter	: Adrian Ulrich <kernel@blinkenlights.ch>
Date		: 2009-08-08 22:08 (12 days old)
First-Bad-Commit: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=fa047e4f6fa63a6e9d0ae4d7749538830d14a343


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13914
Subject		: e1000e reports invalid NVM Checksum on 82566DM-2 (bisected)
Submitter	:  <jsbronder@gentoo.org>
Date		: 2009-08-04 18:06 (16 days old)


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13906
Subject		: Huawei E169 GPRS connection causes Ooops
Submitter	: Clemens Eisserer <linuxhippy@gmail.com>
Date		: 2009-08-04 09:02 (16 days old)


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13899
Subject		: Oops from tar, 2.6.31-rc5, 32 bit on quad core phenom.
Submitter	: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>
Date		: 2009-08-01 13:04 (19 days old)
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124913190304149&w=4


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13869
Subject		: Radeon framebuffer (w/o KMS) corruption at boot.
Submitter	: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
Date		: 2009-07-29 16:44 (22 days old)


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13848
Subject		: iwlwifi (4965) regression since 2.6.30
Submitter	: Lukas Hejtmanek <xhejtman@ics.muni.cz>
Date		: 2009-07-26 7:57 (25 days old)
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124859658502866&w=4


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13836
Subject		: suspend script fails, related to stdout?
Submitter	: Tomas M. <tmezzadra@gmail.com>
Date		: 2009-07-17 21:24 (34 days old)
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124785853811667&w=4


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13819
Subject		: system freeze when switching to console
Submitter	: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Date		: 2009-07-23 17:57 (28 days old)


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13809
Subject		: oprofile: possible circular locking dependency detected
Submitter	: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Date		: 2009-07-22 13:35 (29 days old)


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13740
Subject		: X server crashes with 2.6.31-rc2 when options are changed
Submitter	: Michael S. Tsirkin <m.s.tsirkin@gmail.com>
Date		: 2009-07-07 15:19 (44 days old)


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13733
Subject		: 2.6.31-rc2: irq 16: nobody cared
Submitter	: Niel Lambrechts <niel.lambrechts@gmail.com>
Date		: 2009-07-06 18:32 (45 days old)
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124690524027166&w=4


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13645
Subject		: NULL pointer dereference at (null) (level2_spare_pgt)
Submitter	: poornima nayak <mpnayak@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date		: 2009-06-17 17:56 (64 days old)
References	: http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/6/17/194


Regressions with patches
------------------------

Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14017
Subject		: _end symbol missing from Symbol.map
Submitter	: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Date		: 2009-08-13 6:45 (7 days old)
First-Bad-Commit: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=091e52c3551d3031343df24b573b770b4c6c72b6
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125014649102253&w=4
Handled-By	: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Patch		: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125014649102253&w=4


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13948
Subject		: ath5k broken after suspend-to-ram
Submitter	: Johannes Stezenbach <js@sig21.net>
Date		: 2009-08-07 21:51 (13 days old)
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124968192727854&w=4
Handled-By	: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>
Patch		: http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/38550/


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13946
Subject		: x86 MCE malfunction on Thinkpad T42p
Submitter	: Johannes Stezenbach <js@sig21.net>
Date		: 2009-08-07 17:09 (13 days old)
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124966500232399&w=4
Handled-By	: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Patch		: http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/37908/


For details, please visit the bug entries and follow the links given in
references.

As you can see, there is a Bugzilla entry for each of the listed regressions.
There also is a Bugzilla entry used for tracking the regressions from 2.6.30,
unresolved as well as resolved, at:

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13615

Please let me know if there are any Bugzilla entries that should be added to
the list in there.

Thanks,
Rafael

Re: 2.6.31-rc6-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.30

[John Dykstra]

On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 22:20 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> Bug-Entry       : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14002
> Subject         : WARNING: at net/ipv4/af_inet.c:154
> inet_sock_destruct+0x164/0x1c0()
> Submitter       : Ralf Hildebrandt <ralf.hildebrandt@charite.de>
> Date            : 2009-08-18 12:37 (2 days old)

That looks similar to the WARNING discussed in [1].

There was no resolution to that thread.  However, [2] points out
possible other occurrences of the problem in 2.6.27, 28 and 29.

--  John

[1]  http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg103267.html
[2]  http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg104120.html

Re: 2.6.31-rc6-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.30

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Thursday 20 August 2009, John Dykstra wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 22:20 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > Bug-Entry       : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14002
> > Subject         : WARNING: at net/ipv4/af_inet.c:154
> > inet_sock_destruct+0x164/0x1c0()
> > Submitter       : Ralf Hildebrandt <ralf.hildebrandt@charite.de>
> > Date            : 2009-08-18 12:37 (2 days old)
> 
> That looks similar to the WARNING discussed in [1].
> 
> There was no resolution to that thread.  However, [2] points out
> possible other occurrences of the problem in 2.6.27, 28 and 29.
> 
> --  John
> 
> [1]  http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg103267.html
> [2]  http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg104120.html

Thanks for the information.

So I'll drop this from the list, since it most probably is not a recent thing.

Best,
Rafael

Re: 2.6.31-rc6-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.30

[Larry Finger]

Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:

> Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13960
> Subject		: rtl8187 not connect to wifi
> Submitter	: okias <d.okias@gmail.com>
> Date		: 2009-08-10 19:16 (10 days old)

The patch for this one was sent from Linville to DaveM earlier today,
and should be sent to mainline in the near future.

AFAIK, the OP has not yet tested the patch, but I think I was able to
reproduce the problem, and the patch did fit it for me.

Larry

Re: 2.6.31-rc6-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.30

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Friday 21 August 2009, Larry Finger wrote:
> Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> 
> > Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13960
> > Subject		: rtl8187 not connect to wifi
> > Submitter	: okias <d.okias@gmail.com>
> > Date		: 2009-08-10 19:16 (10 days old)
> 
> The patch for this one was sent from Linville to DaveM earlier today,
> and should be sent to mainline in the near future.
> 
> AFAIK, the OP has not yet tested the patch, but I think I was able to
> reproduce the problem, and the patch did fit it for me.

Thanks for the update.

Can you please close the bug when the patch is merged?

Rafael

Re: 2.6.31-rc6-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.30

[Larry Finger]

Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Friday 21 August 2009, Larry Finger wrote:
>> Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>>
>>> Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13960
>>> Subject		: rtl8187 not connect to wifi
>>> Submitter	: okias <d.okias@gmail.com>
>>> Date		: 2009-08-10 19:16 (10 days old)
>> The patch for this one was sent from Linville to DaveM earlier today,
>> and should be sent to mainline in the near future.
>>
>> AFAIK, the OP has not yet tested the patch, but I think I was able to
>> reproduce the problem, and the patch did fit it for me.
> 
> Thanks for the update.
> 
> Can you please close the bug when the patch is merged?

The patch hit mainline as commit
1a9937b7f07ab6e35515e32a7625f0ba50ab7670. The bug has been closed.

Larry