Hi, running kernel 3.5.rc6 with the two gspca-sn9c20x webcams 0c45:62b3 Microdia PC Camera with Microphone (SN9C202 + OV9655) 0c45:6270 Microdia PC Camera (SN9C201 + MI0360/MT9V011 or MI0360SOC/MT9V111) U-CAM PC Camera NE878, Whitcom WHC017, ... I'm getting the following kernel oops when I start capturing with qv4l2 (and also Kopete and others): [ 81.719973] gspca_sn9c20x: Set 640x480 [ 81.736805] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000002c [ 81.736877] IP: [<f7aebb59>] v4l2_ctrl_g_ctrl+0x9/0x50 [videodev] [ 81.736901] *pdpt = 000000002c4fa001 *pde = 0000000000000000 [ 81.736922] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP [ 81.737055] [ 81.737071] Pid: 4026, comm: qv4l2 Not tainted 3.4.0-0.1-desktop+ #19 System manufacturer System Product Name/M2N-VM DH [ 81.737101] EIP: 0060:[<f7aebb59>] EFLAGS: 00010292 CPU: 1 [ 81.737130] EIP is at v4l2_ctrl_g_ctrl+0x9/0x50 [videodev] [ 81.737147] EAX: 00000000 EBX: 00000000 ECX: f6c000c0 EDX: 00000001 [ 81.737165] ESI: 00000028 EDI: 00000028 EBP: f5af9c84 ESP: f5af9c7c [ 81.737183] DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0033 SS: 0068 [ 81.737200] CR0: 80050033 CR2: 0000002c CR3: 2c941000 CR4: 000007f0 [ 81.737219] DR0: 00000000 DR1: 00000000 DR2: 00000000 DR3: 00000000 [ 81.737236] DR6: ffff0ff0 DR7: 00000400 [ 81.737252] Process qv4l2 (pid: 4026, ti=f5af8000 task=f594c030 task.ti=f5af8000) [ 81.737271] Stack: [ 81.737290] 00000028 f61c2000 f5af9cd0 f7d1c74c 0000007f 00000000 f5af9ca4 c0586ba1 [ 81.737318] ef190444 0000007f 00000080 000001e0 00000280 00000002 00000000 02000100 [ 81.737346] 003c2800 00f000a0 f61c2000 00000000 00000000 f5af9d84 f7b682c0 f71d8bec [ 81.737366] Call Trace: [ 81.737390] [<f7d1c74c>] sd_start+0x2dc/0x450 [gspca_sn9c20x] [ 81.737421] [<c0586ba1>] ? usb_alloc_coherent+0x21/0x30 [ 81.737448] [<f7b682c0>] gspca_init_transfer+0x260/0x420 [gspca_main] [ 81.737479] [<c02ea322>] ? __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x142/0x7b0 [ 81.737504] [<f7b6926b>] vidioc_streamon+0x9b/0xb0 [gspca_main] [ 81.737535] [<f7ae4919>] __video_do_ioctl+0x2ba9/0x5780 [videodev] [ 81.737565] [<c031b7ee>] ? alloc_pages_current+0x8e/0x100 [ 81.737588] [<c0230998>] ? kmap_atomic_prot+0xe8/0x110 [ 81.737611] [<c04824ea>] ? __copy_from_user_ll+0x1a/0x30 [ 81.737630] [<c0482530>] ? _copy_from_user+0x30/0x50 [ 81.737656] [<f7ae1b0e>] video_usercopy+0x1de/0x270 [videodev] [ 81.737679] [<c0309fc8>] ? mmap_region+0x1e8/0x4b0 [ 81.737706] [<f7ae1bb2>] video_ioctl2+0x12/0x20 [videodev] [ 81.737725] [<f7ae1d70>] ? v4l2_norm_to_name+0x50/0x50 [videodev] [ 81.737725] [<f7ae064a>] v4l2_ioctl+0xca/0x190 [videodev] [ 81.737725] [<c030a401>] ? do_mmap_pgoff+0x171/0x2e0 [ 81.737725] [<f7ae0580>] ? v4l2_open+0x120/0x120 [videodev] [ 81.737725] [<c0344074>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x74/0x2e0 [ 81.737725] [<c0344347>] sys_ioctl+0x67/0x80 [ 81.737725] [<c07242dd>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb [ 81.737725] Code: 55 f0 89 02 8b 46 10 8b 40 14 e8 03 61 c3 c8 89 f8 83 c4 04 5b 5e 5f 5d c3 89 f6 8d bc 27 00 00 00 00 55 89 e5 53 89 c3 83 ec 04 <8b> 40 2c c7 45 f8 00 00 00 00 8d 50 fb 83 fa 02 77 09 80 b8 d3 [ 81.737725] EIP: [<f7aebb59>] v4l2_ctrl_g_ctrl+0x9/0x50 [videodev] SS:ESP 0068:f5af9c7c [ 81.737725] CR2: 000000000000002c [ 81.743027] ---[ end trace 1c291740d69b151f ]--- This is a regression from kernel 3.4.x. The causing commit seems to be commit 63069da1c8ef0abcdb74b0ea1c461d23fb9181d9 Author: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun May 6 09:28:29 2012 -0300 [media] gcpca_sn9c20x: Convert to the control framework HdG: Small fix: don't register some controls for sensors which don't have an implementation for them. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxx> Should I open a bug report at bugzilla, too ? Regards, Frank Schäfer -- 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