Processed: A few linux-2.6 bugs, September edition

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> # Hi,
> #
> # As you all know, the linux-2.6 has bugs.  More stalled important or
> # normal bugs at the end of September than at the start, so we're
> # still losing the battle to recover all useful data from each report
> # before the submitters get bored.
> #
> # Acting as bug receptionist is not very fun, so let's see if there
> # are other ways to make progress.  Here's a summary of the first few
> # important and serious bugs not tagged "moreinfo" or "forwarded" in
> # the bug list.  Please feel free to follow up to them with
> # information or hints to move them forward.
> #
> # Bug: http://bugs.debian.org/642988
> # Submitter: Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <tshepang@gmail.com>
> # Summary: [experimental] linux-headers depends on linux-kbuild-3.1.0
> #  which is not in the archive
> # Workaround: build src:linux-tools from svn.debian.org.  Or don't use
> #  out-of-tree modules.
> #
> # Bug: http://bugs.debian.org/643817
> # Submitter: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
> # Summary: [squeeze, sid] NULL pointer dereference in the new IPv6
> #  fragment ID generator
> # Reference: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1196272/focus=1196503
> # Regression: yes
> # Comment: will presumably revert CVE-2011-2699 fix for now
> #
> tags 643817 + upstream
Bug #643817 [linux-2.6] Fix for CVE-2011-2699 can result in crash in VM hosts
Added tag(s) upstream.
> #
> # Bug: http://bugs.debian.org/593304
> # Submitter: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
> # Summary: [lenny] Removal and reinsertion of floppy or mtdblock device can
> #  cause oops
> # Fixed-upstream: 2.6.28, 2.6.27.51
> # Comment: requires physical access to exploit, but the fix seems low risk.
> #  I think we should take the fix.
> #
> # Bug: http://bugs.debian.org/598104
> # Submitter: MirosÅ?aw Zalewski <miniopl@gmail.com>
> # Summary: [squeeze] BIOS on Toshiba Satellite machines corrupts DSDT
> #  during bootup
> # Fixed-upstream: 2.6.36
> # Comment: can't reproduce the bug on my Satellite C650D, BIOS 1.60 09/02/2010
> #  Once we have confirmation the fix works, we can apply and pass it to gregkh
> #
> tags 598104 = upstream patch moreinfo
Bug #598104 [src:linux-2.6] Toshiba Satellite C650: DSDT is borked (acpi errors, slow boot, wifi fails, etc)
Added tag(s) upstream and moreinfo.
> #
> # Bug: http://bugs.debian.org/516785
> # Submitter: Hermann Lauer <Hermann.Lauer@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de>
> # Summary: [lenny, squeeze, sid] System Hardware FATAL RESET with cassini driver
> #  on sparc
> # Reference: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.sparc/10405/focus=11193
> # Comments: DaveM does enough great work as it is.  We shouldn't have to
> #  rely on him to carry the brunt of this work.
> #
> #  The fundamental questions are: where is it panicking?  And why?
> #  Maybe someone can make progress by the printk method.
> #
> #  Some people are using the cassini driver with more or less success on
> #  similar (but presumably not identical) machines:
> #  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.sparc/14032/focus=14044
> #  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.ports.sparc/14019/focus=14025
> #
> tags 516785 = upstream moreinfo
Bug #516785 [linux-2.6] linux-image-2.6.26-1-sparc64-smp: [sparc] SunFire480R cassini network driver kernel panic
Added tag(s) upstream and moreinfo; removed tag(s) help.
> forwarded 516785 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.sparc/10405/focus=11193
Bug #516785 [linux-2.6] linux-image-2.6.26-1-sparc64-smp: [sparc] SunFire480R cassini network driver kernel panic
Set Bug forwarded-to-address to 'http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.sparc/10405/focus=11193'.
> #
> # Bug: http://bugs.debian.org/517627
> # Submitter: Thibaut VARENE <varenet@debian.org>
> # Summary: [lenny, squeeze, sid] AceNIC driver requires unpackaged
> #  firmware
> # Reference: http://wiki.debian.org/KernelFirmwareLicensing#acenic_.28drivers.2BAC8-net.29
> # Comments: From <http://web.archive.org/web/20000711071330/sanjose.alteon.com/license-agree.shtml>:
> #
> #  "Alteon grants you a limited, non-transferable, non-exclusive,
> #   perpetual license to use, execute and compile the Software solely
> #   for the purpose of creating, testing and providing software
> #   programs (herein, the "Authorized Drivers") for use with ALTEON
> #   ACEnic adapters and ALTEON network cards. You may copy the Software
> #   and may publicly display the source code of any Authorized Driver
> #   in educational journals and periodicals; provided that you
> #   reproduce all applicable copyright and other proprietary notices
> #   that are contained within the original copy of the Software. You
> #   may license the object code of an Authorized Driver, including the
> #   Software contained therein; provided that such Authorized Driver is
> #   restricted to use solely with ALTEON ACEnic adapters and ALTEON
> #   network cards."
> #
> #  Debian is not an educational journal or periodical (well, we do
> #  periodically make releases :)), as far as I know, but it looks like
> #  the compiled firmware should be distributable.  Next step is
> #  presumably to clarify this in linux-firmware:WHENCE.
> #
> clone 517627 -1
Bug#517627: linux-image-2.6.26-1-parisc64-smp: Acenic driver without firmware triggers HPMC
Bug 517627 cloned as bug 643952.

> reassign -1 src:firmware-nonfree 0.33
Bug #643952 [linux-2.6] linux-image-2.6.26-1-parisc64-smp: Acenic driver without firmware triggers HPMC
Bug reassigned from package 'linux-2.6' to 'src:firmware-nonfree'.
Bug #643952 [src:firmware-nonfree] linux-image-2.6.26-1-parisc64-smp: Acenic driver without firmware triggers HPMC
Bug Marked as found in versions firmware-nonfree/0.33.
> retitle -1 firmware-nonfree: please package acenic firmware
Bug #643952 [src:firmware-nonfree] linux-image-2.6.26-1-parisc64-smp: Acenic driver without firmware triggers HPMC
Changed Bug title to 'firmware-nonfree: please package acenic firmware' from 'linux-image-2.6.26-1-parisc64-smp: Acenic driver without firmware triggers HPMC'
> # Once the firmware is packaged, it would be a lot easier to tell
> # whether it's feasible to get the driver working using only free
> # software.
> block 517627 by -1
Bug #517627 [linux-2.6] linux-image-2.6.26-1-parisc64-smp: Acenic driver without firmware triggers HPMC
Was not blocked by any bugs.
Added blocking bug(s) of 517627: 643952
> tags 517627 + upstream
Bug #517627 [linux-2.6] linux-image-2.6.26-1-parisc64-smp: Acenic driver without firmware triggers HPMC
Added tag(s) upstream.
> found 517627 linux-2.6/2.6.26-13
Bug #517627 [linux-2.6] linux-image-2.6.26-1-parisc64-smp: Acenic driver without firmware triggers HPMC
Bug Marked as found in versions linux-2.6/2.6.26-13.
> #
> # Bug: http://bugs.debian.org/524876
> # Submitter: Dave Alitz <satabug@powersys.com>
> # Summary: [lenny, (later versions?)] sata_mv: timeouts/hard resets on
> #  4-port 5041, fixed by replacing disks
> # Comments: "The drives in the server were standard Western Digital
> #  drives instead of their RAID drives.  Apparently the older
> #  driver was slow enough that the drive latency didn't cause
> #  problems. Replacing the drives with RE3 drives fixed everything."
> #
> #  Doesn't leave me happy.  But the submitter is happy, so I don't
> #  see how we can make progress on it --- close the bug?  Would be
> #  nice if someone knowledgeable about RAID could glance over this
> #  and tell whether it is a known problem or not.
> #
> # Bug: http://bugs.debian.org/532005
> # Submitter: Matthew Wakeling <mnw21@cam.ac.uk>
> # Submitter: Nick Daly <nick.m.daly@gmail.com>
> # Summary: HDA digital beep turns a pleasant PC speaker beep into an
> #  unpleasant honk on some machines.
> # Regression: yes
> # Comments: I can reproduce this with my roommate's laptop.  Will try
> #  to get time on that computer to look into it.
> #
> tags 532005 + upstream
Bug #532005 [linux-2.6] PC speaker bell makes a hideous buzzing honk, not a nice beep (HDA digital beep should not override actual pc speaker)
Added tag(s) upstream.
> #
> # Bug: http://bugs.debian.org/533620
> # Submitter: Rainer Typke
> # Summary: [lenny] (unreproducible?) BUG at fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmmaster.c:671!
> # Comment: sounds like a race.  I don't see any obvious bugs or
> #  patches in the area (not that I've looked hard).
> #
> tags 533620 + upstream unreproducible
Bug #533620 [linux-2.6] ocfs2-tools: kernel BUG at fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmmaster.c:671! invalid opcode
Added tag(s) unreproducible and upstream.
> #
> # Bug: http://bugs.debian.org/534545
> # Submitter: Szabolcs Gyuris <gyuris.szabolcs@integrity.hu>
> # Summary: [lenny] BUG at fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.c:678 and hang
> # Comment: the tripped assertion is
> #  BUG_ON(!(lockres->l_flags & OCFS2_LOCK_BUSY)) in
> #  ocfs2_generic_handle_convert_action.  Would be useful to know how
> #  reproducible it is, and if it is reproducible whether it was fixed
> #  in newer kernels.
> #
> # Bug: http://bugs.debian.org/535460
> # Submitter: Youssef Eldakar <youssef.eldakar@bibalex.org>
> # Summary: [lenny] unbounded memory usage by nfs-kernel-server
> # Comment: submitter moved on to OpenAFS but _might_ be able to debug
> #  anyway
> #
> tags 535460 + moreinfo
Bug #535460 [linux-2.6] nfs-kernel-server: Consumes memory indefinitely and results in kernel panic eventually
Added tag(s) moreinfo.
> #
> # Bug: http://bugs.debian.org/538158
> # Submitter: Arcady Genkin <agenkin@cdf.toronto.edu>
> # Submitter: Juan Miguel Corral Cano <cde_ruylopez@yahoo.es>
> # Summary: [lenny] soft lockup in default_idle
> # Comment: Juan reports the squeeze kernel working well on affected
> #  machines.  No obviously relevant patches in the 2.6.27.y tree.
> #  Would be hard to bisect the fix because is intermittent, but might
> #  be worth a try.
> #
> tags 538158 + upstream
Bug #538158 [linux-2.6] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#5 stuck for 62s with 2.6.26-2-686-bigmem kernel
Added tag(s) upstream.
> #
> # Bug: http://bugs.debian.org/556433
> # Submitter: Steve Karg <steve@kargs.net>
> # Summary: 3c59x: timeout after high network activity
> # Comment: Earlier kernels also required a reboot to get the network
> #  working again.  That should probably be treated as a separate bug,
> #  but it does not affect squeeze and it is not obvious that it
> #  affects lenny, so meh.
> #
> #  Next step is to test against 3.x and the latest 2.6.32.y and then
> #  actually pass it upstream this time.
> #
> found 556433 linux-2.6/2.6.30-8
Bug #556433 [linux-2.6] linux-image-2.6.30-2-486: 3c59x: NETDEV WATCHDOG: transmit timed out
Bug Marked as found in versions linux-2.6/2.6.30-8.
> found 556433 linux-2.6/2.6.32~rc8-1~experimental.1
Bug #556433 [linux-2.6] linux-image-2.6.30-2-486: 3c59x: NETDEV WATCHDOG: transmit timed out
Bug Marked as found in versions linux-2.6/2.6.32~rc8-1~experimental.1.
> #
> # Bug: http://bugs.debian.org/558258
> # Submitter: Peter Neal <doabackflip@gmail.com>
> # Summary: BUG in isolate_lru_pages at mm/vmscan.c:725!
> # Comment: Has attached oops, ripe for converting to text and
> #  disassembling with decodecode.
> #
> # Bug: http://bugs.debian.org/561203
> # Submitter: dann frazier <dannf@debian.org>
> # Summary: [hppa] cache corruption on VIPT-WB machines
> # Reference: http://wiki.parisc-linux.org/TestCases
> # Workaround: http://bugs.debian.org/590889
> # Comment: long known upstream.  Perhaps should be split at some
> #  point into two bugs, one for fixing this in UP kernels and
> #  one for SMP kernels.
> #
> tags 561203 + upstream experimental
Bug #561203 [linux-2.6] threads and fork on machine with VIPT-WB cache
Added tag(s) upstream and experimental.
> forwarded 561203 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.parisc/3161/focus=3291
Bug #561203 [linux-2.6] threads and fork on machine with VIPT-WB cache
Set Bug forwarded-to-address to 'http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.parisc/3161/focus=3291'.
> #
> # Bug: http://bugs.debian.org/568557
> # Submitter: cteg <comsublant@gmx.net>
> # Submitter: Rik Theys <Rik.Theys@esat.kuleuven.be>
> # Summary: asus_atk0110: keyboard and mouse stop working after loading on
> #  ASUS P7P55D-E
> # Workaround: blacklist asus_atk0110
> # Workaround: pcie_aspm=off
> # Comment: would be helpful to know what exactly "stop working" means
> #  and whether sid is affected
> #
> # Thanks for reading.  Happy investigating!
>
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561203: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=561203
517627: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=517627
516785: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=516785
532005: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=532005
598104: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=598104
538158: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=538158
533620: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=533620
535460: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=535460
643952: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=643952
643817: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=643817
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