Bug 542960 – sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.18.7: General protection fault udevd-systemd

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO

[Description tbartdev 2015-03-11 19:57:16 UTC]

Booting 3.18.7 results in a general protection fault somewhere around where I'd expect "waiting for uevents to be processed". This is on a Thinkpad T61p. On a Thinkpad T410i the same kernel boots successfully.

Blacklisting different modules results in different incarnations of this GPF.

I'll attach a dmesg output.

This does not have too much priority (for me) as both 3.17 and also ~3.19.1 boot successfully, but I wanted to report it nevertheless as 3.18.7 shouldn't be stable considering this error.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.18.7 #latest stable as of this report
2. boot with
root=/dev/sda2 rfkill.master_switch_mode=0 vga=31B net.ifnames=0 raid=noautodetect modprobe.blacklist=nvidia s

Actual Results:  
4 seconds later I get this GPF


Basically stable amd64 system here.

Portage 2.2.14 (python 3.3.5-final-0, default/linux/amd64/13.0, gcc-4.8.3, glibc-2.19-r1, 3.19.1-gentoo x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-3.19.1-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_T9300_@_2.50GHz-with-gentoo-2.2
KiB Mem:     3983260 total,   2689084 free
KiB Swap:    4000180 total,   4000180 free
Timestamp of tree: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 12:45:01 +0000
ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.24 p1.4) 2.24
distcc 3.1 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [disabled]
app-shells/bash:          4.2_p53
dev-java/java-config:     2.2.0
dev-lang/perl:            5.20.1-r4
dev-lang/python:          2.7.9-r1, 3.2.5-r6, 3.3.5-r1, 3.4.1
dev-util/cmake:           2.8.12.2-r1
dev-util/pkgconfig:       0.28-r1
sys-apps/baselayout:      2.2
sys-apps/openrc:          0.13.11
sys-apps/sandbox:         2.6-r1
sys-devel/autoconf:       2.13, 2.69
sys-devel/automake:       1.11.6-r1, 1.12.6, 1.13.4
sys-devel/binutils:       2.24-r3
sys-devel/gcc:            4.8.3
sys-devel/gcc-config:     1.7.3
sys-devel/libtool:        2.4.4
sys-devel/make:           4.1-r1
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.18 (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc:           2.19-r1
Repositories: gentoo science proaudio my-local-overlay
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=core2 -msse4.1 --param l1-cache-size=32 --param l1-cache-line-size=64 --param l2-cache-size=6144 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /var/lib/hsqldb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=core2 -msse4.1 --param l1-cache-size=32 --param l1-cache-line-size=64 --param l2-cache-size=6144 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--autounmask-write"
FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync"
FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.inode.at http://gentoo.osuosl.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--sort-common -Wl,--as-needed"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/lib/layman/science /var/lib/layman/pro-audio /usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://gentoo.inode.at/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 aac aacs acl acpi alsa amd64 arts audiofile avi bash-completion bluetooth bluray branding bzip2 bzlib cairo cddb cdparanoia cdr cli consolekit cpdflib cracklib crypt cscope ctype cups cxx dbus dga dio directfb divx4linux dri dts dv dvd dvdr dvdread encode ethereal exif faac fam fbcon ffmpeg flac flash flatfile fortran ftp gcj gd gdbm gif gimpprint gstreamer gtk2 hal iconv ieee1394 imagemagick imap imlib jack joystick jpeg ladcca lame lcms libav libsamplerate mad matroska metric mikmod mime ming mmap mmx mmxext mng modules mp3 mpeg multilib nas ncurses nptl nptlonly ogg oggvorbis openal opengl openmp pam pch pcre pda pdf pdflib perl png pnp policykit ppds qt4 quicktime radiotap readline samba session slang smp sndfile sockets spell sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 ssl ssse3 svg tcpd theora threads tidy tiff truetype udev unicode usb userlocales vcd vdpau vim-syntax vorbis wifi win32codecs wma wmf x264 xine xinerama xml xml2 xmms xosd xv xvid xvmc zlib" ABI_X86="64" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" CPU_FLAGS_X86="mmx mmxext sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 ssse3" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-5" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby20" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia intel" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON

[Comment 1 tbartdev 2015-03-11 19:58:02 UTC]

Created attachment 398670 [details]
dmesg output

[Comment 2 Mike Pagano 2015-03-20 18:57:31 UTC]

Can you test 3.18.9 and see if it's fixed there?

Would you have the time to bisect between you last working kernel and the failing kernel?

[Comment 3 tbartdev 2015-03-23 17:18:15 UTC]

I am currently on a pretty short time budget but I'll try to bisect.

However, 3.18.8 fixes it, so it's only one minor version to work on, should not be too time consuming. I'll keep you updated.

[Comment 4 tbartdev 2015-03-23 18:03:44 UTC]

Well, it won't let my bisect this way round and there are no kernel between 3.17.7 and the failing 3.18.7 in portage. Too much to bisect.
Trying with manually checking out somewhere closer before 3.18.7

[Comment 5 tbartdev 2015-03-23 19:01:56 UTC]

checked out
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git

git checkout v3.18.7 

copied config over, make oldconfig && make -j3 && make -j3 modules && make modules_install

creates a 3.18.7 kernel that boots flawlessly.

I think it must be in the gentoo patchset, then.

How to bisect this?

[Comment 6 Mike Pagano 2015-06-17 00:25:17 UTC]

You could start with a vanilla-sources-4.0.5 and apply the extra gentoo-sources patches one at a time.

[Comment 7 tbartdev 2015-07-03 22:27:26 UTC]

Is this really still sensible?
I mean from 3.18 on, everything is fine, so it seems to be fixed anyway..

[Comment 8 Alice Ferrazzi 2017-02-04 07:44:10 UTC]

closing for inactivity.

is this still a problem with more recent kernel ? 

please open a new bug if the problem persist with a more recent kernel.

in the new bug start with a vanilla-sources and apply the extra gentoo-sources patches one at a time for finding where is the problem.