Re: [2.6.31] ir-kbd-i2c oops.

[Andy Walls]

On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 12:57 +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> Hi Pawel,
> 
> I am removing the linux-i2c list from Cc, because it seems clear that
> your problem is related to specific media drivers and not the i2c
> subsystem.
> 
> On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:16:15 +0200, PaweÅ Sikora wrote:
> > On Tuesday 29 September 2009 16:16:29 Jean Delvare wrote:
> > > On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:03:32 +0200, PaweÅ Sikora wrote:
> > > > On Wednesday 16 September 2009 08:57:01 Jean Delvare wrote:
> > > > > Hi Pawel,
> > > > >
> > > > > I think this would be fixed by the following patch:
> > > > > http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/45707/
> > > >
> > > > still oopses. this time i've attached full dmesg.
> > > 
> > > Any news on this? Do you have a refined list of kernels which have the
> > > bug and kernels which do not?
> > 
> > afaics in the 2.6.2{7,8}, the remote sends some noises to pc.
> > effect: random characters on terminal and unusable login prompt.
> > 
> > now in the 2.6.31, the kernel module oopses during udev loading.
> > so i've renamed the .ko to prevent loading.
> 

> > i've attached asm dump of ir-common.ko
> > i found the '41 c7 80 cc ...' code in dump at adress 0x83e.
> 
> Not sure why you look at address 0x83e? The stack trace says +0x64. As
> function ir_input_init() starts at 0x800, the oops address would be
> 0x864, which is:
> 
> 864:	f0 0f ab 31          	lock bts %esi,(%rcx)
> 
> If my disassembler skills are still worth anything, this corresponds to
> the set_bit instruction in:
> 
> 	for (i = 0; i < IR_KEYTAB_SIZE; i++)
> 		set_bit(ir->ir_codes[i], dev->keybit);
> 
> in the source code. This suggests that ir->ir_codes is smaller than
> expected (sounds unlikely as this array is included in struct
> ir_input_state) or dev->keybit isn't large enough (sounds unlikely as
> well, it should be large enough to contain 0x300 bits while ir keycodes
> are all below 0x100.) So most probably something went wrong before and
> we're only noticing now.

Jean,

You should be aware that the type of ir_codes changed recently from 

IR_KEYTAB_TYPE

to

struct ir_scancode_table *


I'm not sure if it is the problem here, but it may be prudent to check
that there's no mismatch between the module and the structure
definitions being pulled in via "#include"  (maybe by stopping gcc after
the preprocessing with -E ).

Regards,
Andy

> Are you running distribution kernels or self-compiled ones? Any local
> patches applied?
> 
> Would you be able to apply debug patches and rebuild your kernel?
> At this point, all I can offer is instrumenting ir_probe() and
> ir_input_init() with log messages to see exactly what code paths are
> taken and what parameters are passed around.
> 

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