From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755942Ab1I2Mi3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Sep 2011 08:38:29 -0400 Received: from hapkido.dreamhost.com ([66.33.216.122]:51683 "EHLO hapkido.dreamhost.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753999Ab1I2Mi2 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Sep 2011 08:38:28 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=shealevy.com; h=message-id:date :subject:from:to:mime-version:content-type: content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=shealevy.com; b=duaLD8QeohlD CDD6FuDA4yHq2tYGpaU+h5wNLUKDd776P/sv5DPKBHsXKG0L6+worSxoRvOGlCdc ZAGhsO24PGKfgeH3cQ5PMeEoTRFm3z7G9DA00l7ezi+Rf2qLQW1ERUEKsM90tNu8 OJGqeF4eJobnvcB0QxV4uKFb4+Vvx6I= Message-ID: <7ca3debde28dcc206c1f6f787df5c619.squirrel@webmail.shealevy.com> Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 05:38:27 -0700 Subject: Hang with "runaway loop modprobe net-pf-1" on Linux 3.0.4 From: shea@shealevy.com To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.21 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello, My initrd mounts /proc and /sys, puts a tmpfs at /dev, then loads ext4. On 2.6.39 (and earlier), this works fine and the initrd init continues happily. On 3.0.4, however, the kernel spits out > request_module: runaway loop modprobe net-pf-1 a few times then hangs. If I drop into a shell before loading ext4 and run modprobe unix, the same problem occurs. The modprobe used is dynamically linked with glibc (which is included in the initrd), and it is the same modprobe on the working and non-working systems. From my searches, it appears that CONFIG_UNIX=y instead of =m would probably solve this problem, but I'd rather keep it as a module if it's possible to get it working. What's going wrong here? Why does it work on 2.6.39 but not 3.0.4? Regards, Shea Levy