From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Shea Levy Subject: Re: Hang with "runaway loop modprobe net-pf-1" on Linux 3.0.4 Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2011 16:37:54 -0400 Message-ID: <4E877A22.6070605@shealevy.com> References: <7ca3debde28dcc206c1f6f787df5c619.squirrel@webmail.shealevy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "David S. Miller" , "Eric Dumazet" , "Alban Crequy" , "Andrew Morton" , "Davide Libenzi" , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from hapkido.dreamhost.com ([66.33.216.122]:39307 "EHLO hapkido.dreamhost.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754908Ab1JAUiL (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Oct 2011 16:38:11 -0400 Received: from homiemail-a80.g.dreamhost.com (caibbdcaaaaf.dreamhost.com [208.113.200.5]) by hapkido.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D3A91844DE for ; Sat, 1 Oct 2011 13:38:10 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <7ca3debde28dcc206c1f6f787df5c619.squirrel@webmail.shealevy.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 09/29/2011 08:38 AM, shea@shealevy.com wrote: > 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 > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ CC'ing af_unix.c maintainers. Also, I had the same problem with 3.0.