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Bug#509338: NULL pointer dereference in psmouse



Hi,

Am Donnerstag, den 14.06.2012, 15:48 -0500 schrieb Jonathan Nieder:
> In 2008, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> 
> > I just got a NULL-pointer-dereference:
> >
> > [  672.170484] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000000
> > [  672.170494] IP: [<ffffffffa023a03d>] synaptics_reconnect+0x20/0x9d [psmouse]
> [...]
> > Note that I’m affected by this bug:
> > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8740
> 
> In 2010, upstream you wrote:
> 
> > On
> > $ uname -a
> > Linux kirk 2.6.36-rc6-amd64 #1 SMP Mon Oct 4 09:56:45 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> >
> > I still observer some issues:
> >
> > [   52.011328] psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 1
> > [   52.011332] psmouse.c: issuing reconnect request
> 
> Do you still have access to this system?  Are you still having trouble
> with its touchpad, and if so, what is the nature of the trouble these
> days?

nothing seems to have change since 2010: I don’t see a
NULL-pointer-dereference, but when both touchpad and trackpoint are
enabled, the pointer sometimes gets stuck for a short while while dmesg
tells me:

[   55.444165] psmouse serio1: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 1
[   55.446370] psmouse serio1: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 1
[   55.448494] psmouse serio1: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 1
[   76.420802] psmouse serio1: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 1
[   76.423256] psmouse serio1: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 1
[   76.423258] psmouse serio1: issuing reconnect request
[  389.906979] psmouse serio1: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 1
[  389.909379] psmouse serio1: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 1
[  389.911666] psmouse serio1: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 1
[  389.943244] psmouse serio1: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 1
[  389.945504] psmouse serio1: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 1
[  389.945507] psmouse serio1: issuing reconnect request

I can prevent the problem by disabling the touchpad in the BIOS. This is
on 3.2.0-2.

Greetings,
Joachim

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Joachim "nomeata" Breitner
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