Re: linux-2.6.20.4-ck1 / evdev / hub crash

[Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@insightbb.com>]

On Thursday 29 March 2007 04:56, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Avuton Olrich wrote:
> 
> > I've been having problems lately with my mouse, and I know that the
> > kernel is tainted. If that's a problem please just ignore this dump.
> > I just restarted my computer with a ck[1] kernel, which I had been on
> > for a couple of days before this, when X started I noticed that my MX
> > Revolution mouse didn't work, so I tried to restart KDM (every now and
> > again evdev fails, has problems). When that didn't work I decided to
> > remove and reinstall the receiver from the hub, when I did I noticed X
> > wouldn't start any more and my dmesg[2] had a dump. Also including a
> > copy of my .config[3] (slightly modified for use with a newer kernel).
> > This isn't a reoccurring issue, yet, just wanted to report it in case
> > it's of any use, thanks. I'm not on the list, please CC me if anything
> > is needed.
> > 1.
> > http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/pre-releases/2.6.20.4/2.6.20.4-ck1/patch-2.6.20.4-ck1.bz2
> > 2. http://avuton.googlepages.com/evdev_dump
> > 3. http://avuton.googlepages.com/config
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I added Dmitry and linux-input mailinglist to CC. This is the second time 
> I see oops on dereferencing 0x00100100 pointer in evdev_disconnect() 
> called from input_unregister_device()
> - the first one is DVB-T related thing reported a few days ago here - 
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/9/212
> 

Could you please try 2.6.21-rc5-mm4? It has evdev locking patch that
I believe should fix these kind of oopses.

-- 
Dmitry