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SubjectRe: Oops when accessing /dev/fd0 (kernel 2.4.7 and devfsd 1.3.11)

On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 10:19:07PM -0600, Richard Gooch wrote:
> If you think the problem may be devfs-related, a good test is to try
> again with CONFIG_DEVFS_FS=n.

I tried kernel 2.4.8 and also had an oops. An earlier kernel w/out devfs did
not cause an oops. I plan on making a non-devfs 2.4.8 kernel to see if the
oops does not happen.

> However, I run devfs, and I don't see this problem.

I do not know if the devfs info, in the oops (ksymoops output) data below
indicates a problem w/devfs or not. Maybe you can tell?

> You need to run this through ksymoops before anyone can help you.

Here is the output from ksymoops

-----
>>EIP; c013c4c4 <vfs_readlink+24/60> <=====
Trace; c015469b <devfs_unregister_blkdev+12eb/1960>
Trace; c01376d2 <cdput+5e2/880>
Trace; c0106c2b <__up_wakeup+108b/24a0>
Code; c013c4c4 <vfs_readlink+24/60>
00000000 <_EIP>:
Code; c013c4c4 <vfs_readlink+24/60> <=====
0: f2 ae repnz scas %es:(%edi),%al <=====
Code; c013c4c6 <vfs_readlink+26/60>
2: f7 d1 not %ecx
Code; c013c4c8 <vfs_readlink+28/60>
4: 49 dec %ecx
Code; c013c4c9 <vfs_readlink+29/60>
5: 89 ce mov %ecx,%esi
Code; c013c4cb <vfs_readlink+2b/60>
7: 39 de cmp %ebx,%esi
Code; c013c4cd <vfs_readlink+2d/60>
9: 0f 47 f3 cmova %ebx,%esi
Code; c013c4d0 <vfs_readlink+30/60>
c: 56 push %esi
Code; c013c4d1 <vfs_readlink+31/60>
d: 52 push %edx
Code; c013c4d2 <vfs_readlink+32/60>
e: 8b 44 24 1c mov 0x1c(%esp,1),%eax
Code; c013c4d6 <vfs_readlink+36/60>
12: 50 push %eax
Code; c013c4d7 <vfs_readlink+37/60>
13: e8 00 00 00 00 call 18 <_EIP+0x18> c013c4dc <vfs_readlink+3c/60>
-----

After watching what happens during the boot process I started turning off
things that might be touching the floppy device (at boot), such as autofs.
What finally stopped the Oops was to comment out the floppy entry in
/etc/fstab:

/dev/fd0 /floppy auto defaults,user,noauto 0 0

I can then load the floppy module after boot, and successfully access the
floppy device w/o any problems. The oops happened when the mountall script
(Debian testing) was running:

mount -avt nonfs,noproc,nosmbfs

Devfsd is started way before mountall is ran so I do not know why it is
causing problems.

Please CC replies to taylorcc@codecafe.com as I am not on the list. Thanks.
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