Re: 2.6.37-rc7: Regression: b43: crashes in hwrng_register()

Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
2011-01-04T23:35:21Z

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On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 12:06:44AM +0100, Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 09:42:38AM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > Can you please try this patch against vanilla to print out the
> > raw output of xstore?
> 00000000 00 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff |................|

Btw: the same with vanilla 2.6.37-rc7 and only the printk in xstore()
from your 2nd patch:

# hexdump -n 16 -C /dev/hwrng
00000000 2b f3 16 07 e8 57 1a a9 d2 3e 7f ad 0e 78 75 7f |+....W...>...xu.|
00000010
#

kern.log meanwhile (lines numbered):

1 Jan 5 00:27:09 ideapad kernel: [ 122.489475] 0x25ba3b2b
2 Jan 5 00:27:09 ideapad kernel: [ 122.489486] 0xe68ae2f3
3 Jan 5 00:27:09 ideapad kernel: [ 122.489489] 0x0
4 Jan 5 00:27:09 ideapad kernel: [ 122.489502] 0x75621016
5 Jan 5 00:27:09 ideapad kernel: [ 122.489505] 0x0
6 Jan 5 00:27:09 ideapad kernel: [ 122.489518] 0x727edc07
7 Jan 5 00:27:09 ideapad kernel: [ 122.489520] 0x0
8 Jan 5 00:27:09 ideapad kernel: [ 122.489534] 0x851b82e8
9 Jan 5 00:27:09 ideapad kernel: [ 122.491241] 0xfba49c57
10 Jan 5 00:27:09 ideapad kernel: [ 122.491245] 0x0
11 Jan 5 00:27:09 ideapad kernel: [ 122.491258] 0xc63eca1a
...
8156 Jan 5 00:27:10 ideapad kernel: [ 122.782215] 0x0
8157 Jan 5 00:27:10 ideapad kernel: [ 122.782228] 0xb736d99b
8158 Jan 5 00:27:10 ideapad kernel: [ 122.782230] 0x0
8159 Jan 5 00:27:10 ideapad kernel: [ 122.782243] 0x339211fd
8160 Jan 5 00:27:10 ideapad kernel: [ 122.782246] 0x0
8161 Jan 5 00:27:10 ideapad kernel: [ 122.782258] 0x12f898d1
8162 Jan 5 00:27:10 ideapad kernel: [ 122.782261] 0x0
8163 Jan 5 00:27:10 ideapad kernel: [ 122.782273] 0xc73fcdda

Mario
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