olympic (tokenring) & IPv6 (was Re: Linux 2.4.1ac20)

[Richard A Nelson]

Problem recap:
  * modprobe oopses with null pointer right after loading olympic module
  * problem still occurs upto 2.4.2ac5

I've not been able to capture the oops due to other hardware problems,
but have narrowed the problem down:

 1) modprobe ipv6
    modprobe olympic
    ---> Oops & reboot

 2) modprobe olympic
    modprobe ipv6
    ---> still running (ok, so its only been 20 minutes, but hey that
         is *significantly* better than Oops on bootup)

> On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Richard A Nelson wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Can you stick an if(dev!=NULL) in front of that and let me know if that
> > > fixes it - just to verify thats the problem spot
> >
> > Compiling now, will reboot in the am (if it aint done soon) -
> > don't want it rebooting all night if this isn't it ;-}
>
> Sigh, it appears that the problem is actually neither of the above
> lines.
>
> I even tried 2.4.2 and had the same problem, then I noticed that 2.4.2
> also contains the same update ;-}
>
> I put an if(dev == NULL)printk...else in both spots and rebooted.
>
> Then (I gotta start drinking more coffee, or increase Copenhagen
> intake), I noticed that the actual oops is from modprobe!!!!
>
> I've not been able to get a oops trace because the error either causes
> a reboot, or hang (either case, e2fsck is run at reboot).
>
> Heres some system info that might be useful:
> Kernel modules         2.4.2
> Gnu C                  2.95.3
> Gnu Make               3.79.1
> Binutils               2.10.91.0.2
> Linux C Library        2.2.2
> Dynamic linker         ldd (GNU libc) 2.2.2
> Procps                 2.0.7
> Mount                  2.10s
> Net-tools              2.05
> Console-tools          0.2.3
> Sh-utils               2.0.11
>
> I'll be happy to reboot and capture the oops, if someone can help me
> make sure it gets logged (serial console not a possibility, the other
> box is currently in pieces).
>
>

-- 
Rick Nelson
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