Hello,
there are two problems with arcnet drivers.
* Summary
1) arping utility cause kernel oops when used for arcnet NIC
2) "BUG: no buffers are available??" message
*System information
Linux version 2.4.16 (root@hostel.nstu.ru) (gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat
Linux 7.1 2.96-98)) #2 óÂÔ äÅË 8 13:30:06 NOVT 2001
Bugs also persist on all earlier 2.4.x kernel I tested
# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 6
model : 4
model name : AMD Athlon(tm) Processor
stepping : 2
cpu MHz : 697.652
cache size : 256 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat
pse36 mmx fxsr syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow
bogomips : 1392.64
# cat /proc/modules
3c59x 24544 1
de4x5 39952 2
com90xx 5824 1
rfc1201 5280 0 (unused)
arcnet 9184 0 [com90xx rfc1201]
ipt_REDIRECT 704 1 (autoclean)
ipt_REJECT 2784 1 (autoclean)
iptable_filter 1648 0 (autoclean) (unused)
iptable_nat 13040 0 [ipt_REDIRECT]
ip_conntrack 13072 1 [ipt_REDIRECT iptable_nat]
ip_queue 5552 0 (unused)
ip_tables 10624 6 [ipt_REDIRECT ipt_REJECT iptable_filter
iptable_nat]
rtc 5632 0 (autoclean)
*Details
There is an arcnet interface in system
# ifconfig arc0
arc0 Link encap:ARCnet HWaddr 03
inet addr:193.125.1.254 Bcast:193.125.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.252
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:6548827 errors:7 dropped:3 overruns:0 frame:4
TX packets:3498925 errors:16276 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:23344
collisions:0 txqueuelen:30
RX bytes:1953724850 (1863.2 Mb) TX bytes:305177825 (291.0 Mb)
Interrupt:3 Base address:0x300 Memory:d0000-d07ff
First problem:
# arping -D -I arc0 193.125.1.253
ARPING 193.125.1.88 from 0.0.0.0 arc0
Segmentation fault
arc0: arcnet_header: Yikes! skb->len(0) != len(18)!
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000064
printing eip:
d084285b
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010:[<d084285b>] Not tainted
EFLAGS: 00010282
eax: 000000ff ebx: c2a3b9c0 ecx: 000000ff edx: d084336c
esi: cf6ef000 edi: 00000000 ebp: 00000806 esp: c7c43de0
ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Process arping (pid: 18604, stackpage=c7c43000)
Stack: ffa3b9c0 c2a3b9c0 cf6ef000 cfd7f000 00000806 d083a63d c2a3b9c0 00000806
000000ff c2a3b9c0 cfd7f000 c7c43ed0 00000012 c01d7227 c2a3b9c0 cfd7f000
00000806 c7c43efc 00000000 00000012 c7c43efc 06080000 cf607500 ffffffea
Call Trace: [<d083a63d>] [<c01d7227>] [<c0122deb>] [<c019899b>] [<c0198500>]
[<c01996ed>] [<c010fd9e>] [<c0166435>] [<c011bc02>] [<c0199e97>]
[<c0106ceb>]
Code: 8b 77 64 83 ab 80 00 00 00 08 83 43 5c 08 8b 8b 80 00 00 00
Second problem:
There are lot of "kernel: arc0: get_arcbuf: BUG: no buffers are
available??" messages in logs.
Please ask if you are interested in more details which I might forget to
write. If you have any comments/patches please send it as well.
Petr Bavorovsky,
Novosibirsk, Russian Federation.
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