Bug#346123: linux-image-2.6.15-1-686: modprobe of kernel module asus_acpi failed, gives an oops
Package: linux-image-2.6.15-1-686
Version: 2.6.15-1
Severity: normal
modprobe of kernel module asus_acpi failed, gives an oops
Package: linux-image-2.6.15-1-686
Information from syslog:
Jan 5 19:01:13 mogli.reincke.private kernel: Asus Laptop ACPI Extras version 0.29
Jan 5 19:01:13 mogli.reincke.private kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000
Jan 5 19:01:13 mogli.reincke.private kernel: printing eip:
Jan 5 19:01:13 mogli.reincke.private kernel: e0bc537c
Jan 5 19:01:13 mogli.reincke.private kernel: *pde = 00000000
Jan 5 19:01:13 mogli.reincke.private kernel: Oops: 0000 [#1]
Jan 5 19:01:13 mogli.reincke.private kernel: Modules linked in: asus_acpi binfmt_misc lp thermal fan button ac battery autofs4 ipv6 nls_iso8859_1 nls_cp437 vfat fat speedstep_centrino freq_table processor cpufreq_ondemand cpufreq_conservative sr_mod sbp2 scsi_mod eth1394 ipw2200 ieee80211 ieee80211_crypt yenta_socket rsrc_nonstatic firmware_class ohci1394 ieee1394 pcmcia_core 8139cp 8139too mii joydev psmouse serio_raw parport_pc parport snd_intel8x0 snd_intel8x0m snd_ac97_codec snd_ac97_bus snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm snd_timer snd rtc ehci_hcd i2c_i801 shpchp pci_hotplug ide_cd cdrom intel_agp agpgart i2c_core uhci_hcd soundcore usbcore snd_page_alloc ext3 jbd mbcache ide_disk generic ide_generic piix ide_core evdev mousedev
Jan 5 19:01:13 mogli.reincke.private kernel: CPU: 0
Jan 5 19:01:13 mogli.reincke.private kernel: EIP: 0060:[<e0bc537c>] Not tainted VLI
Jan 5 19:01:13 mogli.reincke.private kernel: EFLAGS: 00010203 (2.6.15-1-686)
Jan 5 19:01:13 mogli.reincke.private kernel: EIP is at asus_hotk_get_info+0x184/0x771 [asus_acpi]
Jan 5 19:01:13 mogli.reincke.private kernel: eax: d696be00 ebx: dfef3c00 ecx: 00000002 edx: 00000003
Jan 5 19:01:13 mogli.reincke.private kernel: esi: 00000000 edi: e0c2eaf0 ebp: d355fa80 esp: c42c9f44
Jan 5 19:01:13 mogli.reincke.private kernel: ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068
Jan 5 19:01:13 mogli.reincke.private kernel: Process modprobe (pid: 9692, threadinfo=c42c8000 task=cd529a70)
Jan 5 19:01:13 mogli.reincke.private kernel: Stack: 00005105 cc480000 00000010 d355fa80 00000000 dfef3c00 e0c2f1ea dfef3c84
Jan 5 19:01:13 mogli.reincke.private kernel: 00000000 e0bc5a2d dfef3c00 e0c309c0 e0c309c0 c01dbc2b dfef3c00 dfef3c00
Jan 5 19:01:13 mogli.reincke.private kernel: dfef3820 c01dbcc8 dfef3c00 e0c309c0 e0c30aa0 61000028 b7ef1b02 c42c8000
Jan 5 19:01:13 mogli.reincke.private kernel: Call Trace:
Jan 5 19:01:13 mogli.reincke.private kernel: [<e0bc5a2d>] asus_hotk_add+0x90/0x14c [asus_acpi]
Jan 5 19:01:13 mogli.reincke.private kernel: [<c01dbc2b>] acpi_bus_driver_init+0x2b/0x4f
Jan 5 19:01:13 mogli.reincke.private kernel: [<c01dbcc8>] acpi_driver_attach+0x39/0x5f
Jan 5 19:01:13 mogli.reincke.private kernel: [<e0bc5b45>] asus_acpi_init+0x5c/0x88 [asus_acpi]
Jan 5 19:01:13 mogli.reincke.private kernel: [<c0129ee1>] sys_init_module+0xa5/0x164
Jan 5 19:01:13 mogli.reincke.private kernel: [<c0102a75>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
Jan 5 19:01:13 mogli.reincke.private kernel: Code: 08 68 d3 f0 c2 e0 e8 34 0f 55 df 5e 5f a1 f0 0b c3 e0 ba 03 00 00 00 bf f0 ea c2 e0 89 d1 c7 40 14 12 00 00 00 8b 75 08 49 78 08 <ac> ae 75 08 84 c0 75 f5 31 c0 eb 04 19 c0 0c 01 85 c0 75 11 a1
Jan 5 19:01:55 mogli.reincke.private ntpd[5729]: synchronized to 192.168.100.1, stratum 11
Search on internet gives information about an existing patch:
http://www.int21.de/samsung/p30-2.6.14.diff
which is also discussed in the folowing thread on lkml
http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0512.1/1751.html
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.15-1-686 depends on:
ii module-init-tools 3.2.2-1 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii yaird [linux-initramfs-tool] 0.0.12-3 Yet Another mkInitRD
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.15-1-686 recommends:
pn libc6-i686 <none> (no description available)
-- debconf information excluded
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