From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264531AbUEMVlY (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 May 2004 17:41:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264551AbUEMVlY (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 May 2004 17:41:24 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:32654 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S264531AbUEMVlV (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 May 2004 17:41:21 -0400 X-Authenticated: #1045983 From: Helge Deller To: Geoff Mishkin Subject: Re: 2.6.5 panic while unloading cisco_ipsec Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 23:41:17 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.52 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <1084482726.7506.6.camel@amsa> In-Reply-To: <1084482726.7506.6.camel@amsa> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200405132341.18052.deller@gmx.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Geoff, I don't have a fix for you, but I would propose that you try an open source alternative instead: http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~massar/vpnc/ It worked for me like a charm, and the most important issue is, that it's a complete user-space application without any need for kernel modules at all :-) Best regards, Helge On Thursday 13 May 2004 23:12, Geoff Mishkin wrote: > Please let me know if I'm posting this in the wrong place. I get a > kernel panic with kernel 2.6.5 (compiled with gcc 2.95.3) when I try to > unload the Cisco VPN client's (4.0.3b) cisco_ipsec module. I know it's > a binary-only module, so I'm not sure how much help this will be, but > here's the text I managed to pull off the screen when I tried rmmod'ing > it: > > (Not sure if there is anything above this, this is all that fit on the > screen, and I didn't find anything in the logs) > PREEMPT > CPU: 0 > EIP: 0060:[] Tainted: PF > EFLAGS: 00010202 (2.6.5) > EIP is at qdisc_destroy+0x6/0xc4 > eax: 00000064 ebx: c6daa000 ecx: c6dabf20 edx: c6dabf28 > esi: 00000064 edi: ce5fd028 ebp: c6dabf6c esp: c6dabf28 > ds: 007b es: 007b ss:0068 > Process rmmod (pid: 7134, threadinfo=c6daa000 task=c6db19c0) > Stack: c6daa000 d0abb600 c02a9ff3 00000064 d0abb600 d0abb600 c02a1426 > d0abb600 > d0abb600 00000000 c0398a9c c02440c8 d0abb600 d0ae8f80 d0a99aec > d0abb600 > d0ae8f80 c6daa000 c012f724 bffff730 00000000 bffff730 00000000 > 63736963 > Call Trace: > [] dev_shutdown+0x57/0xe4 > [] unregister_netdevice+0x192/0x288 > [] unregister_netdev+0x10/0x28 > [] cleanup_module+0x1c/0x30 [cisco_ipsec] > [] sys_delete_module+0x140/0x174 > [] sys_munmap+0x37/0x54 > [] syscall_call+0x7/0xb > > Code: 8b 5e 0c ff 4e 18 0f 94 c0 84 c0 0f 84 a8 00 00 00 8b 56 2c > <0>Kernel panic: Fatal exception in interrupt > In interrupt handler - not syncing > > --Geoff Mishkin