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2.6.23 regressions

List of Aces http://kernelnewbies.org/known_regressions_stats (a.k.a statistics)

Unclassified

Gabriel C <nix.or.die@googlemail.com>
Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Satyam Sharma <satyam.sharma@gmail.com>
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@gmail.com>
Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Vitaly Bordug <vitb@kernel.crashing.org>
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Markus <lists4me@web.de>
Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Borislav Petkov <bbpetkov@yahoo.de>
Bret Towe <magnade@gmail.com>
Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Sid Boyce <g3vbv@blueyonder.co.uk>

Subject         : 2.6.23-rc1-git3 init failure
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/26/467
Last known good : 2.6.23-rc1-git1
Submitter       : Sid Boyce <g3vbv@blueyonder.co.uk>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : ?
Status          : unknown

Subject         : Time Problems with 2.6.23-rc1-gf695baf2
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/23/486
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : ?
Status          : problem is being debugged

Subject         : 2.6.23-rc1 regression: mm: fix fault vs invalidate race for linear mappings
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/24/301
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Bret Towe <magnade@gmail.com>
Caused-By       : Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
                  commit d00806b183152af6d24f46f0c33f14162ca1262a
Handled-By      : ?
Status          : unknown

Subject         : no setup signature found...
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/24/168
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Borislav Petkov <bbpetkov@yahoo.de>
Caused-By       : H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
                  commit 4fd06960f120e02e9abc802a09f9511c400042a5
Handled-By      : H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Status          : problem is being debugged

Subject         : /usr/bin/ld: section .text [ffffffffff700500 -> ffffffffff7007e3] overlaps section .gnu.version_d [ffffffffff7004d8 -> ffffffffff70050f]
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/22/239
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
                  Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
Status          : problem is being debugged

Subject         : pcwd_init_module(): WARNING: at lib/kref.c:33 kref_get()
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/22/94
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Patch           : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/29/235
Status          : patch available

Subject         : konqueror suddenly vanishing, "konqueror: Fatal IO error: client killed"
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/22/86
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Markus <lists4me@web.de>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Status          : problem is being debugged

Subject         : kobject link failure
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/19/495
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
                  Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Patch           : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/20/143
Status          : patch available

Subject         : Kconfig prompts without help text
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/16/326
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Patch           : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/18/236
Status          : patch available

Subject         : Oops while modprobing phy fixed module
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/14/63
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Gabriel C <nix.or.die@googlemail.com>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : Satyam Sharma <satyam.sharma@gmail.com>
                  Vitaly Bordug <vitb@kernel.crashing.org>
Patch1          : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/18/506
Status          : patch available

CPUFREQ

Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Denis Sadykov <denis.m.sadykov@intel.com>
dth <dth@dth.net>

Subject         : ide problems: 2.6.22-git17 working, 2.6.23-rc1* is not
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/27/298
                  http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/29/371
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : dth <dth@dth.net>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : ?
Status          : unknown

FS

linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

Subject         : NFSv4 poops itself
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/27/144
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> 
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Patch           : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/27/183
Status          : patch available

Media

v4l-dvb-maintainer@linuxtv.org
Thierry MERLE <thierry.merle@free.fr>
Dwaine P. Garden <dwainegarden@rogers.com>
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Trent Piepho <xyzzy@speakeasy.org>

Subject         : usbvision: don't return an uninitialized value
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/23/65
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Caused-By       : Thierry MERLE <thierry.merle@free.fr>
                  commit c5f48367fe54c46805774eeea8e828de54a5ad7b
Handled-By      : Trent Piepho <xyzzy@speakeasy.org>
Patch           : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/23/114
Status          : patch available

Memory management

Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Subject         : [bug] SLUB & freeing locks
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/26/90
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Patch           : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/26/97
Status          : patch available

Networking

netdev@vger.kernel.org
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
Florian Lohoff <flo@rfc822.org>

Subject         : sky2 boot crash in sky2_mac_intr
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/24/91
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Florian Lohoff <flo@rfc822.org>
Caused-By       : 
Handled-By      : Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Status          : unknown

Subject         : New wake ups from sky2
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/20/386
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
Caused-By       : Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
                  commit eb35cf60e462491249166182e3e755d3d5d91a28
Handled-By      : Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Status          : unknown

Power Management

<linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org>
linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Ismail Dönmez <ismail@pardus.org.tr>

Subject         : New ACPI error/warning with Linus' latest GIT
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/26/395
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Ismail Dönmez <ismail@pardus.org.tr>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : ?
Status          : unknown

SYSFS

Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Simon Arlott

Subject         : sysfs/udev broken in 2.6.23-rc1
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/24/276
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Simon Arlott
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
                  Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Patch           : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/25/83
Status          : patch available

SCSI

linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
James Smart <James.Smart@emulex.com>
Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

Subject         : lpfc_sli.c: off-by-10
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/22/284
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : ?
Status          : unknown

USB

linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Tino Keitel <tino.keitel@gmx.de>
Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>

Subject         : 2.6.23-rc1: uhci_hcd. irq 4: nobody cared
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/29/75
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Status          : unknown

Subject         : 2.6.23-rc1: USB hard disk broken
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/25/62
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Tino Keitel <tino.keitel@gmx.de>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
Status          : unknown

Subject         : BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at drivers/usb/core/urb.c:524,in_atomic():1, irqs_disabled():0
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/23/400
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
Patch           : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/24/203
Status          : patch available

Virtualization

Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

Subject         : drivers/net/xen-netfront.c: bogus code
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/22/256
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Status          : unknown

Sparc32

sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
William L. Irwin <wli@holomorphy.com>
Mark Fortescue <mark@mtfhpc.demon.co.uk>

Subject         : Sparc32 not working:2.6.23-rc1 (git commit 1e4dcd22efa7d24f637ab2ea3a77dd65774eb005)
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/29/224
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Mark Fortescue <mark@mtfhpc.demon.co.uk>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : ?
Status          : unknown

http://kernelnewbies.org/known_regressions_2622 regressions in 2.6.22

http://kernelnewbies.org/known_regressions_2621 regressions in 2.6.21 (unmaintained)

Distro-tracked regressions

Gentoo

[http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&long_desc_type=substring&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&status_whiteboard_type=anywordssubstr&status_whiteboard=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&bug_status=RESOLVED&resolution=UPSTREAM&resolution=---&emailassigned_to1=1&emailtype1=substring&email1=&emailassigned_to2=1&emailreporter2=1&emailcc2=1&emailtype2=substring&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&query_based_on=Kernel+regressions&field0-0-0=status_whiteboard&type0-0-0=regexp&value0-0-0=linux-2\.6\..*-regression Click here]

This list is kept relatively up-to-date. Gentoo kernels are only lightly patched, and the majority of bugs have been reproduced on unpatched kernels and reported upstream. Gentoo only track release kernels, not -rc releases (it's nice to see the scope of Adrian's previous work increased).