Comment 35 for bug 1069707

Hello,

The problem come with 3.5.x kernel. I tested 3.4.0-5.11 kernel and (some) before and all work great.
From 3.5.0-1.1 kernel, the problem persist.
The major difference could be see in this dmesg extract: there's a kernel OOPS...

Kernel =>3.5.0-1.1 dmesg:

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[ 35.333632] lp: driver loaded but no devices found
[ 35.571221] wmi: Mapper loaded
[ 35.576770] ACPI Warning: 0x0000000000000460-0x000000000000047f SystemIO conflicts with Region \PMIO 1 (20120320/utaddress-251)
[ 35.576774] ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device, you should use it instead of the native driver
[ 35.576775] lpc_ich: Resource conflict(s) found affecting iTCO_wdt
[ 35.576782] ACPI Warning: 0x0000000000000428-0x000000000000042f SystemIO conflicts with Region \PMIO 1 (20120320/utaddress-251)
[ 35.576788] ACPI Warning: 0x0000000000000428-0x000000000000042f SystemIO conflicts with Region \_SB_.PCI0.IEIT.SGPE 2 (20120320/utaddress-251)
[ 35.576789] ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device, you should use it instead of the native driver
[ 35.576796] ACPI Warning: 0x0000000000000500-0x000000000000057f SystemIO conflicts with Region \GPIO 1 (20120320/utaddress-251)
[ 35.576798] ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device, you should use it instead of the native driver
[ 35.576799] lpc_ich: Resource conflict(s) found affecting gpio_ich
[ 35.649026] sony_laptop: Sony Notebook Control Driver v0.6
[ 35.751202] microcode: CPU0 sig=0x20652, pf=0x10, revision=0xc
[ 35.755192] evbug: Connected device: input0 (Power Button at PNP0C0C/button/input0)
[ 35.755197] evbug: Connected device: input1 (Lid Switch at PNP0C0D/button/input0)
[ 35.755199] evbug: Connected device: input2 (Power Button at LNXPWRBN/button/input0)
[ 35.755202] evbug: Connected device: input3 (AT Translated Set 2 keyboard at isa0060/serio0/input0)
[ 35.790263] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 0000000000ff1000
[ 35.790313] IP: [<ffffffff8132a77d>] memcpy+0xd/0x110
[ 35.790340] PGD 1290a7067 PUD 107c9b067 PMD 0
[ 35.790360] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
[ 35.790376] CPU 3
[ 35.790394] Modules linked in: evbug microcode(+) sony_laptop(+) mac_hid lpc_ich wmi lp parport vesafb video firewire_ohci firewire_core atl1c sdhci_pci sdhci crc_itu_t
[ 35.790460]
[ 35.790470] Pid: 628, comm: modprobe Not tainted 3.5.0-1-generic #1-Ubuntu Sony Corporation VPCS12L9E/VAIO
[ 35.790516] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8132a77d>] [<ffffffff8132a77d>] memcpy+0xd/0x110
[ 35.790547] RSP: 0000:ffff880107d45c50 EFLAGS: 00010246
[ 35.790570] RAX: ffff880107d45ca0 RBX: ffff8801290245e0 RCX: 0000000000000001
[ 35.790600] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000ff1000 RDI: ffff880107d45ca0
[ 35.790630] RBP: ffff880107d45c68 R08: ffff880107c26e00 R09: 0000000180400019
[ 35.790660] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: ffffffff813a1ae9 R12: ffff880107d45ca0
[ 35.790689] R13: ffff880107d45cbf R14: ffff88012c9b0400 R15: 0000000000000135
[ 35.790720] FS: 00007fdd03db6700(0000) GS:ffff880137cc0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 35.790754] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
[ 35.790778] CR2: 0000000000ff1000 CR3: 0000000107c15000 CR4: 00000000000007e0
[ 35.790807] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[ 35.790837] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[ 35.790867] Process modprobe (pid: 628, threadinfo ffff880107d44000, task ffff88012c89ae00)
[ 35.790901] Stack:
[ 35.790913] ffffffffa0087833 0000000000000009 0000000000000035 ffff880107d45cf8
[ 35.790945] ffffffffa0088a49 ffff880131ff3be0 ffff88012e1df800 ffff880107d45c90
[ 35.790977] ffff880100000000 0000000000000009 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
[ 35.791008] Call Trace:
[ 35.791025] [<ffffffffa0087833>] ? sony_nc_buffer_call.constprop.12+0x43/0xa0 [sony_laptop]
[ 35.791066] [<ffffffffa0088a49>] sony_nc_function_setup+0x2f9/0xab0 [sony_laptop]
[ 35.791105] [<ffffffffa00893d8>] sony_nc_add+0x1d8/0x620 [sony_laptop]
[ 35.791136] [<ffffffff81387ee9>] acpi_device_probe+0x50/0x11d
[ 35.791168] [<ffffffff8141328e>] driver_probe_device+0x7e/0x220
[ 35.791195] [<ffffffff814134db>] __driver_attach+0xab/0xb0
[ 35.791219] [<ffffffff81413430>] ? driver_probe_device+0x220/0x220
[ 35.791249] [<ffffffff81411555>] bus_for_each_dev+0x55/0x90
[ 35.791274] [<ffffffffa0094000>] ? 0xffffffffa0093fff
[ 35.791297] [<ffffffff81412c9e>] driver_attach+0x1e/0x20
[ 35.791322] [<ffffffff81412958>] bus_add_driver+0x198/0x270
[ 35.791347] [<ffffffffa0094000>] ? 0xffffffffa0093fff
[ 35.791370] [<ffffffff81413ba7>] driver_register+0x77/0x150
[ 35.791398] [<ffffffff8152a0c3>] ? dmi_matches+0x53/0xc0
[ 35.791421] [<ffffffffa0094000>] ? 0xffffffffa0093fff
[ 35.791445] [<ffffffff81388649>] acpi_bus_register_driver+0x3e/0x47
[ 35.791474] [<ffffffffa0094057>] sony_laptop_init+0x57/0x1000 [sony_laptop]
[ 35.791507] [<ffffffff8100212a>] do_one_initcall+0x12a/0x180
[ 35.791534] [<ffffffff810b4e62>] sys_init_module+0xc2/0x230
[ 35.792862] [<ffffffff8167c3e9>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[ 35.794194] Code: 2b 43 50 88 43 4e 48 83 c4 08 5b 5d c3 90 e8 eb fb ff ff eb e6 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 48 89 f8 48 89 d1 48 c1 e9 03 83 e2 07 <f3> 48 a5 89 d1 f3 a4 c3 20 4c 8b 06 4c 8b 4e 08 4c 8b 56 10 4c
[ 35.797048] RIP [<ffffffff8132a77d>] memcpy+0xd/0x110
[ 35.798523] RSP <ffff880107d45c50>
[ 35.799997] CR2: 0000000000ff1000
[ 35.801519] ---[ end trace 8c3c13c17f8d7703 ]---
[ 35.821144] ACPI Warning: 0x0000000000008000-0x000000000000801f SystemIO conflicts with Region \_SB_.PCI0.SBUS.SMBI 1 (20120320/utaddress-251)
[ 35.824180] ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device, you should use it instead of the native driver
[ 35.870860] mei 0000:00:16.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 35.872501] mei 0000:00:16.0: irq 42 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 35.874084] genirq: Threaded irq requested with handler=NULL and !ONESHOT for irq 42
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No problem with kernel < 3.5.0: (3.4.x family and before):

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[ 35.105711] lp: driver loaded but no devices found
[ 35.498875] EXT4-fs (sda6): re-mounted. Opts: errors=remount-ro
[ 35.544416] evbug: Connected device: input0 (Power Button at PNP0C0C/button/input0)
[ 35.544422] evbug: Connected device: input1 (Lid Switch at PNP0C0D/button/input0)
[ 35.544426] evbug: Connected device: input2 (Power Button at LNXPWRBN/button/input0)
[ 35.544430] evbug: Connected device: input3 (AT Translated Set 2 keyboard at isa0060/serio0/input0)
[ 35.544435] evbug: Connected device: input4 (Video Bus at LNXVIDEO/video/input0)
[ 35.560529] wmi: Mapper loaded
[ 35.579247] sony_laptop: Sony Notebook Control Driver v0.6
[ 35.620244] cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain
[ 35.623608] i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.3: PCI INT C -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
[ 35.623617] ACPI: resource 0000:00:1f.3 [io 0x8000-0x801f] conflicts with ACPI region SMBI [io 0x8000-0x800f]
[ 35.623620] ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device, you should use it instead of the native driver
[ 35.633422] mei: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned.
[ 35.633910] mei 0000:00:16.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
[ 35.633919] mei 0000:00:16.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 35.633999] mei 0000:00:16.0: irq 42 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 35.640640] input: PC Speaker as /devices/platform/pcspkr/input/input5
[ 35.640738] evbug: Connected device: input5 (PC Speaker at isa0061/input0)
[ 35.644079] Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link AGN driver for Linux, in-tree:
[ 35.644083] Copyright(c) 2003-2011 Intel Corporation

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I still necessary make a kernel bisect?

Thanks for support. Regards
Salvatore