Hi Raghavendra, On Saturday 25 June 2011 21:19:29 Raghavendra D Prabhu wrote: > Hi, > > While modprobing uvcvideo I am getting the following oops. This is > on a kernel built with latest linus master > (536142f950f7ea4f3d146a138ad6938f28a34f33). I have also attached the > full dmesg. > > ============================================================= > [ 1985.732475] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device Laptop_Integrated_Webcam_2HDM > (0408:2fb1) Could you please send me the output of lsusb -v -d 0408:2fb1 running as root if possible ? > [ 1985.759844] uvcvideo: No streaming interface found for terminal 6. > [ 1985.759863] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at > 0000000000000050 > [ 1985.759871] IP: [<ffffffffa0da23e0>] media_entity_init+0x40/0xa0 [media] [snip] > I was able to observe this at boot and also reproduce it later. > > Further analyzing the oops revealed this: > ======================================================== > perl scripts/markup_oops.pl < ~/oops > > No vmlinux specified, assuming /lib/modules/3.0.0-rc4-LYM/build/vmlinux > unsigned int max_links = num_pads + extra_links; > unsigned int i; > > links = kzalloc(max_links * sizeof(links[0]), GFP_KERNEL); > ffffffffa01573d2: 48 c1 e7 05 shl $0x5,%rdi | %edi > => ffff88013ac31200 ffffffffa01573d6: e8 00 00 00 00 callq > ffffffffa01573db <media_entity_init+0x3b> if (links == NULL) > ffffffffa01573db: 48 85 c0 test %rax,%rax | %eax > => ffff88013ac311e0 ffffffffa01573de: 74 56 je > ffffffffa0157436 <media_entity_init+0x96> entity->max_links = max_links; > entity->num_links = 0; > entity->num_backlinks = 0; > entity->num_pads = num_pads; > entity->pads = pads; > entity->links = links; > *ffffffffa01573e0: 48 89 43 50 mov %rax,0x50(%rbx) | > %eax = ffff88013ac311e0 <--- faulting instruction It looks like entity is NULL. > for (i = 0; i < num_pads; i++) { > pads[i].entity = entity; > pads[i].index = i; > } > > return 0; > ffffffffa01573e4: 31 c0 xor %eax,%eax > entity->num_backlinks = 0; > entity->num_pads = num_pads; > entity->pads = pads; > entity->links = links; > ================================================================== I can't reproduce the problem with my webcams. Can you try a diagnosis patch if needed ? -- Regards, Laurent Pinchart -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html