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>
Vitaly Bordug <vitb@kernel.crashing.org>
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Markus <lists4me@web.de>
Jeff Chua <jeff.chua.linux@gmail.com>
Antonino A. Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
Jan Dittmer <jdi@l4x.org>
Christian Zankel <chris@zankel.net>

Subject         : 2.6.23-rc2 cross compile regressions (alpha,xtensa)
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/6/43
Last known good : alpha: 2.6.22-git8
                  xtensa: 2.6.22-git6
Submitter       : Jan Dittmer <jdi@l4x.org>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : xtensa: Christian Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Status          : unknown

Subject         : console is messed up after resume from s2ram or switching to console from X
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/4/6
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Jeff Chua <jeff.chua.linux@gmail.com>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
                  Antonino A. Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
Workaround      : "s2ram --force --acpi_sleep 1 --vbe_mode"
Status          : problem is being debugged

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         : 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

ACPI

Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Plamen Petrov <plamen.petrov@tk.ru.acad.bg>
Michael Sedkowski <sedmich@gmail.com>

Subject         : MCFG bug on hp nx6310
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/8/252
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Michael Sedkowski <sedmich@gmail.com>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : ?
Status          : unknown

Subject         : 2.6.23-rc1-git10 hangs on boot - needs "acpi=off"
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/2/24
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Plamen Petrov <plamen.petrov@tk.ru.acad.bg>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Status          : problem is being debugged

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       : Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
                  commit f79e3185dd0f8650022518d7624c876d8929061b
Handled-By      : Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Status          : problem is being debugged

FS

linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
nfs@lists.sourceforge.net
Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Andrew Clayton <andrew@digital-domain.net>

Subject         : [NFSD OOPS] 2.6.23-rc1-git10
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/2/462
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Andrew Clayton <andrew@digital-domain.net>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : ?
Status          : unknown

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

Modpost

Jan Dittmer <jdi@l4x.org>
Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org

Subject         : modpost bug breaks ia64 cross compilation
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/27/30
                  http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/27/418
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Jan Dittmer <jdi@l4x.org>
Caused-By       : Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
                  commit 29b71a1ca74491fab9fed09e9d835d840d042690
Handled-By      : ?
Patch           : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/2/211
Status          : patch was suggested

MTD

linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Subject         : error: implicit declaration of function 'cfi_interleave'
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/6/272
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Patch           : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/9/586
Status          : patch available

Networking

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

Subject         : IP v4 routing is broken
References      : http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/files/tbf/bugs/bug_report01.txt
Last known good : 2.6.22-git2
Submitter       : Uwe Bugla <uwe.bugla@gmx.de>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : ?
Status          : unknown

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>
Patch           : http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=118651402523966&w=2
Status          : patch available

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>
Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>

USB

linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
Tino Keitel <tino.keitel@gmx.de>
Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>
Stuart_Hayes@Dell.com <Stuart_Hayes@Dell.com>
Daniel Exner <dex@dragonslave.de>

Subject         : EHCI Regression in 2.6.23-rc2
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/10/81
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Daniel Exner <dex@dragonslave.de>
Caused-By       : Stuart_Hayes@Dell.com <Stuart_Hayes@Dell.com>
                  commit 196705c9bbc03540429b0f7cf9ee35c2f928a534
Handled-By      : ?
Status          : unknown

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

Virtualization

<kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Paolo Ornati <ornati@fastwebnet.it>

Subject         : WARNING: at arch/x86_64/kernel/smp.c:379 smp_call_function_single()
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/10/117
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Paolo Ornati <ornati@fastwebnet.it>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : ?
Status          : unknown

Alpha

Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Oliver Falk <oliver@linux-kernel.at>

Subject         : -Werror compilation problem - make[1]: *** [arch/alpha/kernel/sys_titan.o] Error 1
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/6/137
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Oliver Falk <oliver@linux-kernel.at>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : ?
Status          : unknown

CRIS

starvik@axis.com
Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

Subject         : cris: drivers/cdrom/Kconfig no longer exists
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/8/526
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Patch           : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/8/526
Status          : patch available

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).

-  ⇤ ← Revision 591 as of 2007-08-13 13:42:40 → 
  Size: 12678
  Editor: unregister003160097217
  Comment: "[2.6.23 regression fix] fix thinkpad_acpi without hardware" fixed
+   ← Revision 596 as of 2007-08-13 13:59:27 → ⇥
  Size: 11059
  Editor: unregister003160097217
  Comment: "error: implicit declaration of function 'cfi_interleave'" patch available
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+Additions are marked like this.
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-Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@suse.de>
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-Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@dev.mellanox.co.il>
Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
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-Handled-By      : ?
Status          : unknown

Subject         : T60 ACPI issues/THINKPAD_ACPI_INPUT_ENABLED seems regressive
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/1/198
                  http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/1/176
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@dev.mellanox.co.il>
                  Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Caused-By       : Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
                  commit 1a343760b516ca5466d201bec32b1794858b18a5
Handled-By      : Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Patch           : http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.acpi.devel/24646
Status          : patch available

Subject         : acpi_ec_remove() use-after-free
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/29/138
Last known good : 2.6.22
Submitter       : Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Caused-By       : Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@suse.de>
                  commit 837012ede14a8fc088be3682c964da7fc6af026b
Handled-By      : Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Patch           : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/29/138
Status          : patch available

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       : Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
                  commit 18eab8550397f1f3d4b8b2c5257c88dae25d58ed
Handled-By      : ?
Patch           : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=118590919604954&w=2
Status          : patch available
+Handled-By      : Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Status          : problem is being debugged
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+Line 171:
-Handled-By      : ?
Status          : unknown
+Handled-By      : David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Patch           : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/9/586
Status          : patch available