On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Stephen Lord wrote: > Running 2.6.12 (or one of several descendents of it), someone just let > loose a new device on our fabric, it is causing one of our hosts no > end of grief: > > scsi: unknown device type 12 > Vendor: ADIC Model: SNC Rev: 42dF > Type: RAID ANSI SCSI revision: 03 > qla2300 0000:18:01.1: Waiting for LIP to complete... > qla2300 0000:18:01.1: LIP reset occured (f7f7). > qla2300 0000:18:01.1: LOOP UP detected (2 Gbps). > qla2300 0000:18:01.1: Topology - (F_Port), Host Loop address 0xffff > qla2300 0000:18:01.0: scsi(3:16:1): Abort command issued -- 197 2002. > > and a while later: > > Starting udev: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at > virtual address 0000004c > printing eip: > *pde = 00000000 > Oops: 0000 [#1] > SMP > Modules linked in: sg qla2300 qla2xxx scsi_transport_fc aic7xxx > scsi_transport_spi sd_mod scsi_mod > CPU: 2 > EIP: 0060:[<c0191fe3>] Not tainted VLI > EFLAGS: 00010282 (2.6.12-kdb) > EIP is at sysfs_hash_and_remove+0xc/0xfe > eax: 00000000 ebx: f7e096b0 ecx: 00000000 edx: f885f6b4 > esi: f7e096a8 edi: f885f6ac ebp: f7feee68 esp: f7feee4c > ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 > Process events/2 (pid: 12, threadinfo=f7fee000 task=f7fef530) > Stack: 00000002 00000180 f7e09400 00000000 f7e096b0 f7e096a8 f885f6ac > f7feee78 > c0193aaa 00000000 c02f41fe f7feee9c c0227691 f7e096b0 c02f41fe > f885f640 > f885f6b4 f7e096a8 c1a1fff8 c1a20030 f7feeeac c0227702 f7e096a8 > f7e09400 > Call Trace: > [<c0103ec2>] show_stack+0x9a/0xd0 > [<c010408d>] show_registers+0x175/0x209 > [<c01042ac>] die+0xfa/0x19c > [<c0115200>] do_page_fault+0x239/0x6ee > [<c0103ad7>] error_code+0x4f/0x54 > [<c0193aaa>] sysfs_remove_link+0x1b/0x1d > [<c0227691>] class_device_del+0x8e/0xed > [<c0227702>] class_device_unregister+0x12/0x20 > [<f884d083>] scsi_remove_device+0x4e/0x97 [scsi_mod] > [<f884d156>] __scsi_remove_target+0x8a/0xc9 [scsi_mod] > [<f884d1b6>] __remove_child+0x21/0x29 [scsi_mod] > [<c02255bb>] device_for_each_child+0x32/0x53 > [<f884d209>] scsi_remove_target+0x4b/0x5a [scsi_mod] > [<f883bc54>] fc_timeout_blocked_rport+0x4f/0x55 [scsi_transport_fc] Hmm, could you try one of the latest 2.6.13-rcs, I believe this was recently addressed. -- AV - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html