Hello,
I believe there is a bug in Linux Kernel 4.2. I tried Kernels 2.4.2 and 2.4.0
with my german SuSE-Distribution (7.1).
The problem occurs with my SCSI MO drive. while it works fine with Kernel
2.2.18 on the same machine and distribution, the behaviour with the newer
Kernels is like that:
I can mount the drive. I can do an 'ls'. I can even copy a file onto the
drive. But I can't read from the drive (simple 'less' or 'cp' from the
drive). This results in the immediate message 'Segmentation fault.'. The
resulting entries in the message log looks like this:
Apr 11 15:22:19 r093165 kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer
dereferenceApr 11 15:22:19 r093165 kernel: printing eip:
Apr 11 15:22:19 r093165 kernel: 00000000
Apr 11 15:22:19 r093165 kernel: *pde = 00000000
Apr 11 15:22:19 r093165 kernel: Oops: 0000
Apr 11 15:22:19 r093165 kernel: CPU: 0
Apr 11 15:22:19 r093165 kernel: EIP: 0010:[<00000000>]
Apr 11 15:22:19 r093165 kernel: EFLAGS: 00010282
Apr 11 15:22:19 r093165 kernel: eax: 00000000 ebx: c5130500 ecx: 00000040
Apr 11 15:22:19 r093165 kernel: esi: bffff6f4 edi: 00000000 ebp: 00000040
Apr 11 15:22:19 r093165 kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Apr 11 15:22:19 r093165 kernel: Process less (pid: 434, stackpage=c4cc9000)
Apr 11 15:22:19 r093165 kernel: Stack: c015af6d c5130500 bffff6f4 00000040
c5130Apr 11 15:22:19 r093165 kernel: c5130500 bffff6f4 00000040
c5130520 c4cc8Apr 11 15:22:19 r093165 kernel: c0108f77 00000004
bffff6f4 00000040 00000Apr 11 15:22:19 r093165 kernel: Call Trace:
[fat_file_read+45/52] [sys_read+143/Apr 11 15:22:19 r093165 kernel:
Apr 11 15:22:19 r093165 kernel: Code: Bad EIP value.
To My Hardware and configuration:
SCSI-Controller (Symbios Logic) and MO drive (Fujitsu M2513A):
/proc/scsi/ncr53c8xx/0:
Chip NCR53C810a, device id 0x1, revision id 0x12
On PCI bus 0, device 13, function 0, IRQ 9
Synchronous period factor 25, max commands per lun 32
Debug flags 0x200, verbosity level 1
/proc/scsi/scsi:
Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
Vendor: IBM Model: DCAS-34330 Rev: S65A
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 04 Lun: 00
Vendor: PLEXTOR Model: CD-R PX-W1210S Rev: 1.00
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 05 Lun: 00
Vendor: FUJITSU Model: M2513A Rev: 1700
Type: Optical Device ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Linux version (from /proc/version):
Linux version 2.4.2 (root@r093165) (gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release))
#26 SMP Wed Apr 11 15:18:28 CEST 2001
Processor (from /proc/cpuinfo):
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 5
model : 4
model name : Pentium MMX
stepping : 3
cpu MHz : 232.673
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : yes
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 mmx
bogomips : 463.66
from /proc/ioports:
0000-001f : dma1
0020-003f : pic1
0040-005f : timer
0060-006f : keyboard
0080-008f : dma page reg
00a0-00bf : pic2
00c0-00df : dma2
00f0-00ff : fpu
0170-0177 : ide1
01f0-01f7 : ide0
0213-0213 : isapnp read
0220-022f : soundblaster
02f8-02ff : serial(auto)
0300-031f : eth0
0330-0333 : MPU-401 UART
0376-0376 : ide1
03c0-03df : vga+
03f6-03f6 : ide0
03f8-03ff : serial(auto)
0a79-0a79 : isapnp write
0cf8-0cff : PCI conf1
6100-61ff : Symbios Logic Inc. (formerly NCR) 53c810
6100-617f : ncr53c8xx
6200-62ff : 3Dfx Interactive, Inc. Voodoo 3
f000-f00f : Intel Corporation 82371SB PIIX3 IDE [Natoma/Triton II]
from /proc/iomen:
00000000-0009fbff : System RAM
0009fc00-0009ffff : System RAM
000a0000-000bffff : Video RAM area
000c0000-000c7fff : Video ROM
000c8000-000ca7ff : Extension ROM
000f0000-000fffff : System ROM
00100000-05ffffff : System RAM
00100000-0022e34b : Kernel code
0022e34c-002aabff : Kernel data
e0000000-e1ffffff : 3Dfx Interactive, Inc. Voodoo 3
e2000000-e3ffffff : 3Dfx Interactive, Inc. Voodoo 3
e4000000-e40000ff : Symbios Logic Inc. (formerly NCR) 53c810
ffff0000-ffffffff : reserved
Another remark: my MO-disks are FAT formatted and the data was written on
them using Linux with some 2.2.x kernel.
I hope this helps fixing the bug (or telling me what I've done wrong myself.
But I tried anything and the older kernels work without problems.).
Tobias Landes
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