Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 13564] New: random general protection fault at boot time caused by khubd.

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On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, Andrew Morton wrote:

> On Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:44:49 GMT
> bugzilla-daemon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13564
> > 
> >            Summary: random general protection fault at boot time caused by
> >                     khubd.

> > I firt saw this in the kernel 2.6.30-8 from Ubuntu Karmic.
> > Afer that I have upgraded to 2.6.30-9 which has caused same problem.
> > Now I wanted to try vanila git kernel with radeon KMS so I compiled my own
> > kernel from git. Today I saw it first time also with this kernel.
> > 
> > What happens:
> > 1. I make cold boot or restart
> > 2. Computer boots normaly except all USB ports are dead
> > 3. dmesg shows general protection error caused by khubd
> > 
> > This problem doen't happen even nearly every boot. I would give around 20%
> > chance for khubd failure without collecting statistics.
> > 
> 
> This is a regression in 2.6.30.8.  However we are not told which kernel
> version we regresed against.  Which is the latest kernel which was
> known to work OK?
> 
> The bad bit is:
> 
> 
> : [    1.604937] Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 1732k
> : [    1.672060] Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = 736134769 ns)
> : [    1.704695] usb 3-1: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
> : [    1.858154] general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP 
> : [    1.858277] last sysfs file: 
> : [    1.858318] Modules linked in:
> : [    1.858393] 
> : [    1.858435] Pid: 231, comm: khubd Not tainted (2.6.30-9-generic #10kms5-Ubuntu) Aspire 1350
> : [    1.858485] EIP: 0060:[<c053595b>] EFLAGS: 00010202 CPU: 0
> : [    1.858541] EIP is at schedule_timeout+0x12b/0x1b0
> : [    1.858585] EAX: 000004e0 EBX: 000004e0 ECX: c07eed54 EDX: b48c4368
> : [    1.858631] ESI: df97fd14 EDI: c07ee440 EBP: df97fd54 ESP: df97fd00
> : [    1.858677]  DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068
> : [    1.858723] Process khubd (pid: 231, ti=df97e000 task=df973e30 task.ti=df97e000)
> : [    1.858771] Stack:
> : [    1.858809]  de118b60 1c800000 fffedcd6 000004e2 00000296 00000000 00200200 fffee1b8
> : [    1.859102]  c0144100 df973e30 c07ee440 c05356d2 6275686b 64640064 00000000 00000000
> : [    1.859462]  000000e7 b48c4368 df97fda4 000004e2 df97fda8 df97fd8c c05356d2 df97fdb0
> : [    1.859857] Call Trace:
> : [    1.859898]  [<c0144100>] ? process_timeout+0x0/0x10
> : [    1.859985]  [<c05356d2>] ? wait_for_common+0xa2/0x120
> : [    1.860029]  [<c05356d2>] ? wait_for_common+0xa2/0x120
> : [    1.860029]  [<c0131260>] ? default_wake_function+0x0/0x10
> : [    1.860029]  [<c05357cd>] ? wait_for_completion_timeout+0xd/0x10
> : [    1.860029]  [<c03da8c9>] ? usb_start_wait_urb+0x99/0xb0

This looks like a bug in schedule_timeout, to judge by the EIP value.  
Which would make it a core kernel issue, unrelated to USB.

Alan Stern

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