Bug 156952

Summary:	sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.19-r1 kernel panic with ipv6
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Marcel Klein <marcel>
Component:	[OLD] Unspecified	Assignee:	Daniel Drake (RETIRED) <dsd>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	critical	CC:	kernel, tacvbo, uberlord
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	Kernel configuration Fix ipv6

Description Marcel Klein 2006-12-02 16:21:35 UTC

Hello,

I tried the new 2.6.19 kernel sources and I get a kernel panic when the machine tries to bring up the network interface with ipv6 enabled.
I tried it with ipv6 as module and compiled-in.

Kernel BUG a /net/core/skbuff.c:93!
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1]
[...]
Kernel panic - not syncing fatal exception in interrupt

Portage 2.1.2_rc2-r3 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.5-r0, 2.6.19-gentoo-r1 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.19-gentoo-r1 i686 AMD Duron(tm) Processor
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.6
Last Sync: Sat, 02 Dec 2006 23:00:02 +0000
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r6
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.17
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.17-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL="en_US.utf8"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--exclude-from=/etc/portage/rsync_excludes"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 7zip X a52 aac acpi alsa bitmap-fonts cdr chroot cli cracklib crypt cscope cups dlloader dri dvd dvdr elibc_glibc emboss encode f77 fbcon ffmpeg fftw flac foomaticdb gdbm ggi gif gmp gnutls gpm iconv imlib input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kdehiddenvisibility kernel_linux libg++ libwww mad matroska mikmod mmx mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session slang softmmu spell spl sse ssl tcpd theora truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode userland_GNU userlocales video_cards_r128 vorbis win32codecs x264 xml xorg xosd xv xvid zlib"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS

Comment 1 Marcel Klein 2006-12-02 16:27:37 UTC

Created attachment 103246 [details]
Kernel configuration

Here is the kernel configuration for this computer.

Comment 2 Roy Marples (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-12-03 12:17:34 UTC

I'm seeing this too.

Comment 3 Roy Marples (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-12-03 12:19:23 UTC

Upstream bug

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7621

Comment 4 Roy Marples (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-12-03 12:29:42 UTC

Created attachment 103285 [details, diff]
Fix ipv6

Confirmed this upstream patch fixes the issue. We need to get this rolled in ASAP.

Comment 5 Marcel Klein 2006-12-03 12:39:37 UTC

Same here no problems on all my computers with this fix.

Comment 6 Octavio Ruiz (Ta^3) 2006-12-07 01:23:42 UTC

Patch is working here too, just FYI some related links from the [linux-kernel] list.

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=116485146011898&w=2
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=116485303623545&w=2
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=116485303623545&w=2
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=116505301921414&w=2
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=116508935729450&w=2

Comment 7 Loïc Ludwig 2006-12-08 12:08:55 UTC

Worked for me!

Comment 8 Timo Gurr (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-12-11 03:17:48 UTC

Worked for me, too. Had this issue on one machine.

Comment 9 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-12-12 19:42:09 UTC

Fixed in:
 Linux 2.6.19.2
 genpatches-2.6.19-3
 gentoo-sources-2.6.19-r2