Hi! Thanks for reporting. It appears that on hardware version 9, we get a NULL pointer dereference on kernel 4.5. [ 15.298499] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null) [ 15.301027] IP: [< (null)>] (null) [ 15.302590] PGD 0 [ 15.303276] Oops: 0010 [#1] SMP [ 15.304385] Modules linked in: xt_conntrack ebtable_filter ebtable_nat ebtable_broute bridge stp llc ebtables ip6table_security ip6table_raw ip6table_mangle ip6table_nat nf_conntrack_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv6 nf_nat_ipv6 ip6table_filter ip6_tables iptable_security iptable_raw iptable_mangle iptable_nat nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 nf_nat_ipv4 nf_nat nf_conntrack vmw_vsock_vmci_transport vsock snd_seq_midi bnep snd_seq_midi_event btusb btrtl snd_ens1371 gameport btbcm snd_ac97_codec btintel ppdev ac97_bus snd_seq coretemp crct10dif_pclmul crc32_pclmul bluetooth snd_pcm crc32c_intel vmw_balloon ghash_clmulni_intel snd_rawmidi snd_timer snd_seq_device snd rfkill soundcore vmw_vmci shpchp i2c_piix4 nfit parport_pc parport acpi_cpufreq nfsd auth_rpcgss nfs_acl lockd grace sunrpc vmwgfx serio_raw drm_kms_helper vmw_pvscsi vmxnet3 ttm drm ata_generic pata_acpi [ 15.330004] CPU: 1 PID: 1075 Comm: gnome-shell Not tainted 4.5.0-rc6 #1 [ 15.332000] Hardware name: VMware, Inc. VMware Virtual Platform/440BX Desktop Reference Platform, BIOS 6.00 07/02/2015 [ 15.335179] task: ffff880077394b00 ti: ffff8800773a8000 task.ti: ffff8800773a8000 [ 15.337411] RIP: 0010:[<0000000000000000>] [< (null)>] (null) [ 15.339729] RSP: 0018:ffff8800773abc50 EFLAGS: 00010246 [ 15.341335] RAX: ffffffffa00ed640 RBX: ffff880036171000 RCX: ffff880036173770 [ 15.343470] RDX: 0000000000002000 RSI: 0000000000002000 RDI: ffff8800361734b8 [ 15.345605] RBP: ffff8800773abd18 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 [ 15.347798] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff8800361734e0 [ 15.349929] R13: ffff880036171000 R14: ffff8800773abd60 R15: 00000000fffffffe [ 15.352096] FS: 00007fb347faca80(0000) GS:ffff88007c640000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 15.354513] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 15.356230] CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000000007739f000 CR4: 00000000001406e0 [ 15.358427] Stack: [ 15.359092] ffffffffa0024535 ffff8800773abc68 ffffffff811196cd ffff880036173764 [ 15.361477] ffff880036173770 0000000000000001 ffff880036171410 ffff880000000001 [ 15.364091] ffff880079f38000 0000000000000000 00000000812059bd 0000000000000000 [ 15.366488] Call Trace: [ 15.367278] [<ffffffffa0024535>] ? drm_mode_getconnector+0x375/0x400 [drm] [ 15.369515] [<ffffffff811196cd>] ? debug_lockdep_rcu_enabled+0x1d/0x20 [ 15.371537] [<ffffffffa0015c72>] drm_ioctl+0x152/0x560 [drm] [ 15.373295] [<ffffffffa00241c0>] ? drm_mode_getcrtc+0x150/0x150 [drm] [ 15.375268] [<ffffffffa00cf56d>] vmw_generic_ioctl+0x17d/0x280 [vmwgfx] [ 15.377277] [<ffffffffa0015b20>] ? drm_getmap+0xe0/0xe0 [drm] [ 15.379044] [<ffffffffa00cf6a5>] vmw_unlocked_ioctl+0x15/0x20 [vmwgfx] [ 15.381043] [<ffffffff8126e5a2>] do_vfs_ioctl+0xa2/0x690 [ 15.382684] [<ffffffff8127acbf>] ? __fget+0x11f/0x200 [ 15.384249] [<ffffffff8127aba5>] ? __fget+0x5/0x200 [ 15.385760] [<ffffffff8126ec09>] SyS_ioctl+0x79/0x90 [ 15.387296] [<ffffffff8182daf2>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x12/0x76 [ 15.389246] Code: Bad RIP value. [ 15.390375] RIP [< (null)>] (null) [ 15.391992] RSP <ffff8800773abc50> [ 15.393081] CR2: 0000000000000000 [ 15.394174] ---[ end trace f9f3f138ca13da13 ]--- On 02/29/2016 10:38 PM, Sebastian Herbszt wrote: > Hello, > > I get a boot hang with vmwgfx on 4.5-rc6 (4.5.0-rc6-1.gb239884-default from > openSUSE). This happens on VMware Player 5.0.2. > Same VM works fine with kernel 4.4 but on 4.5-rc6 it hangs with > > [drm] Initialized vmwgfx 2.9.0 20150810 for 0000:00:0f.0 on minor 0 > > I am able to boot the system with "nomodeset". > > Sebastian > _______________________________________________ > dri-devel mailing list > dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel