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r818x driver doesn't work, makes kernel mad

Bug #77161 reported by diegoe
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #78255: [2.6.20-12] rtl8180 gone missing.. Edit Remove
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: linux-image-2.6.20-2-generic

I have a wifi card controlled by r818x driver, updated to 2.6.20-2 kernel yesterday and found that the driver is heavily broken, when I insert my card this happens:
Message from syslogd@milkyway at Tue Dec 26 05:32:12 2006 ...
milkyway kernel: [11848.372000] Oops: 0000 [#1]

Message from syslogd@milkyway at Tue Dec 26 05:32:12 2006 ...
milkyway kernel: [11848.372000] SMP

Message from syslogd@milkyway at Tue Dec 26 05:32:12 2006 ...
milkyway kernel: [11848.372000] CPU: 0

Message from syslogd@milkyway at Tue Dec 26 05:32:12 2006 ...
milkyway kernel: [11848.372000] EIP: 0060:[_proxy_pda+1/1048576] Not tainted VLI

Message from syslogd@milkyway at Tue Dec 26 05:32:12 2006 ...
milkyway kernel: [11848.372000] EFLAGS: 00010202 (2.6.20-2-generic #3)

Message from syslogd@milkyway at Tue Dec 26 05:32:12 2006 ...
milkyway kernel: [11848.372000] EIP is at 0x1

Message from syslogd@milkyway at Tue Dec 26 05:32:12 2006 ...
milkyway kernel: [11848.372000] eax: d1f05000 ebx: d1f05400 ecx: 00000001 edx: 00000001

Message from syslogd@milkyway at Tue Dec 26 05:32:12 2006 ...
milkyway kernel: [11848.372000] esi: d1f05c38 edi: 00001002 ebp: 00000000 esp: f3c35bdc

Message from syslogd@milkyway at Tue Dec 26 05:32:12 2006 ...
milkyway kernel: [11848.372000] ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068

Message from syslogd@milkyway at Tue Dec 26 05:32:12 2006 ...
milkyway kernel: [11848.372000] Process NetworkManager (pid: 4368, ti=f3c34000 task=dff5e030 task.ti=f3c34000)

Message from syslogd@milkyway at Tue Dec 26 05:32:12 2006 ...
milkyway kernel: [11848.372000] Stack: f8e85416 d1f05400 f8e8592c d1f05000 f8dea6d2 f8df7388 d1f05000 00001003

Message from syslogd@milkyway at Tue Dec 26 05:32:12 2006 ...
milkyway kernel: [11848.372000] f8dec303 d1f05000 c027a031 d1f05000 c027885c d1f05000 ffffffed 00000000

Message from syslogd@milkyway at Tue Dec 26 05:32:12 2006 ...
milkyway kernel: [11848.372000] d8fb9c10 c0281b78 00000000 c03c2b20 0000000b 00000000 00000000 00000000

Message from syslogd@milkyway at Tue Dec 26 05:32:12 2006 ...
milkyway kernel: [11848.372000] Call Trace:

Message from syslogd@milkyway at Tue Dec 26 05:32:12 2006 ...
milkyway kernel: [11848.372000] [pg0+950076438/1069061120] rtl_ieee80211_start_protocol+0x46/0xe0 [ieee80211_rtl]

Message from syslogd@milkyway at Tue Dec 26 05:32:12 2006 ...
milkyway kernel: [11848.372000] [pg0+950077740/1069061120] rtl_ieee80211_softmac_start_protocol+0x2c/0x50 [ieee80211_rtl]

Message from syslogd@milkyway at Tue Dec 26 05:32:12 2006 ...
milkyway kernel: [11848.372000] [pg0+949442258/1069061120] _rtl8180_up+0x42/0x50 [r818x]

Message from syslogd@milkyway at Tue Dec 26 05:32:12 2006 ...
milkyway kernel: [11848.372000] [pg0+949449475/1069061120] rtl8180_open+0x23/0x40 [r818x]

Message from syslogd@milkyway at Tue Dec 26 05:32:12 2006 ...
milkyway kernel: [11848.372000] [dev_open+49/112] dev_open+0x31/0x70

Message from syslogd@milkyway at Tue Dec 26 05:32:12 2006 ...
milkyway kernel: [11848.372000] [dev_change_flags+252/304] dev_change_flags+0xfc/0x130

Message from syslogd@milkyway at Tue Dec 26 05:32:12 2006 ...
milkyway kernel: [11848.372000] [rtnl_setlink+1000/1104] rtnl_setlink+0x3e8/0x450

Message from syslogd@milkyway at Tue Dec 26 05:32:12 2006 ...
milkyway kernel: [11848.372000] [cache_alloc_refill+48/1328] cache_alloc_refill+0x30/0x530

Message from syslogd@milkyway at Tue Dec 26 05:32:12 2006 ...
milkyway kernel: [11848.372000] [rtnl_setlink+0/1104] rtnl_setlink+0x0/0x450

Message from syslogd@milkyway at Tue Dec 26 05:32:12 2006 ...
milkyway kernel: [11848.372000] [rtnetlink_rcv_msg+363/592] rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x16b/0x250

Message from syslogd@milkyway at Tue Dec 26 05:32:12 2006 ...
milkyway kernel: [11848.372000] [rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0/592] rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x0/0x250

Message from syslogd@milkyway at Tue Dec 26 05:32:12 2006 ...
milkyway kernel: [11848.372000] [netlink_run_queue+130/288] netlink_run_queue+0x82/0x120

Message from syslogd@milkyway at Tue Dec 26 05:32:12 2006 ...
milkyway kernel: [11848.372000] [rtnetlink_rcv+40/80] rtnetlink_rcv+0x28/0x50

Message from syslogd@milkyway at Tue Dec 26 05:32:12 2006 ...
milkyway kernel: [11848.372000] [netlink_data_ready+18/80] netlink_data_ready+0x12/0x50

Message from syslogd@milkyway at Tue Dec 26 05:32:12 2006 ...
milkyway kernel: [11848.372000] [netlink_sendskb+33/64] netlink_sendskb+0x21/0x40

Message from syslogd@milkyway at Tue Dec 26 05:32:12 2006 ...
milkyway kernel: [11848.372000] [netlink_sendmsg+547/768] netlink_sendmsg+0x223/0x300

Message from syslogd@milkyway at Tue Dec 26 05:32:12 2006 ...
milkyway kernel: [11848.372000] [sock_sendmsg+274/304] sock_sendmsg+0x112/0x130

Message from syslogd@milkyway at Tue Dec 26 05:32:12 2006 ...
milkyway kernel: [11848.372000] [autoremove_wake_function+0/80] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x50

Message from syslogd@milkyway at Tue Dec 26 05:32:12 2006 ...
milkyway kernel: [11848.372000] [__kfree_skb+74/288] __kfree_skb+0x4a/0x120

Message from syslogd@milkyway at Tue Dec 26 05:32:12 2006 ...
milkyway kernel: [11848.372000] [autoremove_wake_function+0/80] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x50

Message from syslogd@milkyway at Tue Dec 26 05:32:12 2006 ...
milkyway kernel: [11848.372000] [unix_stream_recvmsg+558/1376] unix_stream_recvmsg+0x22e/0x560

Message from syslogd@milkyway at Tue Dec 26 05:32:12 2006 ...
milkyway kernel: [11848.372000] [copy_from_user+39/96] copy_from_user+0x27/0x60

Message from syslogd@milkyway at Tue Dec 26 05:32:12 2006 ...
milkyway kernel: [11848.372000] [copy_from_user+39/96] copy_from_user+0x27/0x60

Message from syslogd@milkyway at Tue Dec 26 05:32:12 2006 ...
milkyway kernel: [11848.372000] [sys_sendmsg+353/624] sys_sendmsg+0x161/0x270

Message from syslogd@milkyway at Tue Dec 26 05:32:12 2006 ...
milkyway kernel: [11848.372000] [netlink_insert+218/336] netlink_insert+0xda/0x150

Message from syslogd@milkyway at Tue Dec 26 05:32:12 2006 ...
milkyway kernel: [11848.372000] [copy_to_user+41/80] copy_to_user+0x29/0x50

Message from syslogd@milkyway at Tue Dec 26 05:32:12 2006 ...
milkyway kernel: [11848.372000] [move_addr_to_user+99/112] move_addr_to_user+0x63/0x70

Message from syslogd@milkyway at Tue Dec 26 05:32:12 2006 ...
milkyway kernel: [11848.372000] [do_wp_page+512/1056] do_wp_page+0x200/0x420

Message from syslogd@milkyway at Tue Dec 26 05:32:12 2006 ...
milkyway kernel: [11848.372000] [_spin_lock_bh+8/32] _spin_lock_bh+0x8/0x20

Message from syslogd@milkyway at Tue Dec 26 05:32:12 2006 ...
milkyway kernel: [11848.372000] [release_sock+18/176] release_sock+0x12/0xb0

Message from syslogd@milkyway at Tue Dec 26 05:32:12 2006 ...
milkyway kernel: [11848.372000] [__handle_mm_fault+1693/2336] __handle_mm_fault+0x69d/0x920

Message from syslogd@milkyway at Tue Dec 26 05:32:12 2006 ...
milkyway kernel: [11848.372000] [sys_socketcall+591/640] sys_socketcall+0x24f/0x280

Message from syslogd@milkyway at Tue Dec 26 05:32:12 2006 ...
milkyway kernel: [11848.372000] [do_page_fault+0/1488] do_page_fault+0x0/0x5d0

Message from syslogd@milkyway at Tue Dec 26 05:32:12 2006 ...
milkyway kernel: [11848.372000] [sysenter_past_esp+95/137] sysenter_past_esp+0x5f/0x89

Message from syslogd@milkyway at Tue Dec 26 05:32:12 2006 ...
milkyway kernel: [11848.372000] =======================

Message from syslogd@milkyway at Tue Dec 26 05:32:12 2006 ...
milkyway kernel: [11848.372000] Code: Bad EIP value.

Message from syslogd@milkyway at Tue Dec 26 05:32:12 2006 ...
milkyway kernel: [11848.372000] EIP: [_proxy_pda+1/1048576] 0x1 SS:ESP 0068:f3c35bdc

It was working with ndiswrapper since last week, I had the 2.6.17 kernel then.
I see the following in the changelog for 2.6.19-1.1

  * rtl818x: Add new drivers
    - GIT-SHA 9533d6e292539fae27c6062dbf4ba2b663caaa28

Might be the cause of the problem?

I'm going to try .17 and .19 kernels now.

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diegoe (diegoe-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Attaching a dmesg from another session.

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diegoe (diegoe-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) wrote : More info

I was able to scroll the garbage that appears in the terminal and it says that it's not possible to handle kernel NULL pointers pointing to 000000 (or something like that).

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diegoe (diegoe-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) wrote : The exact message is...

BUG: Unable to handle kernel NULL Pointer dereference at virtual address 00000001

printing eip:
    00000001
Oops: 0000 [#1]
(...)
Process ifconfig
(...)
Trace:
  rtl_ieee80211_start_protocol
  rtl_ieee80211_softmac_start_protocol
  _rtl8180_up
  rtl8180_open

The trace of course has a lot of +0x83124 alike thingies.

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Ben Collins (ben-collins) wrote :

2.6.20-3.4

Changed in linux-source-2.6.20:
status: Unconfirmed → Fix Released
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diegoe (diegoe-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Still happens. I used linux-image-2.6.20-5-generic and got the same result when plugging my card.

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diegoe (diegoe-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Still happens. Just found where does launchpad change status of the bugs btw.

Changed in linux-source-2.6.20:
status: Fix Released → In Progress
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Pascal Bovet (bugreporter) wrote :

I guess I've the similar problem with the herd 5 of feisty fawn (running
 from cd)..

The system freezes during bootup after loading the driver for my Zyxel G-302 v3 (rtl8185 chipset)..
I also had the problem with Edgy (2.6.17-10-generic)..

lspci -vv says (on edgy with self made kernel)
02:09.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Unknown device 8185 (rev 20)
        Subsystem: ZyXEL Communication Corporation Unknown device 340d
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 64 (8000ns min, 16000ns max), Cache Line Size: 16 bytes
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 5
        Region 0: I/O ports at d400 [size=256]
        Region 1: Memory at feaff400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=375mA PME(D0-,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold+)
                Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

Couldn't get the card to work yet..

If you need any further information, let me know..

Btw: Booted with irqpoll boot option due to bug 83313 (https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.20/+bug/83313)

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FabianSeoane (fabian-fseoane) wrote :

still happening when uncommenting the blacklisted module.

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