On 28-01-08 20:12, Thomas Renninger wrote: > This was more a step backward, hopefully this one (on top), gets the > area bugfree? I'm afraid not. Next oops in pnp_check_port(). The attached lets it get past that point but _then_ things fall apart a little bit further on again which seems to mean it's something a bit more fundamental. Should pnp_check_* even be called without any initialised resources? Without the attached: === pnp: the driver 'cs4236_isapnp' has been registered cs4236_isapnp 01:01.00: driver attached cs4236_isapnp 01:01.02: driver attached cs4236_isapnp 01:01.03: driver attached BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000c printing eip: c10e4365 *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT Modules linked in: snd_cs4236 snd_opl3_lib snd_hwdep snd_cs4236_lib snd_mpu401_uart snd_rawmidi snd_seq_device snd_cs4231_lib snd_pcm snd_timer snd soundcore s nd_page_alloc nfsd lockd nfs_acl sunrpc exportfs Pid: 1350, comm: modprobe Not tainted (2.6.24-local #6) EIP: 0060:[] EFLAGS: 00010246 CPU: 0 EIP is at pnp_check_port+0x15/0x125 EAX: ef8f5800 EBX: 00000000 ECX: 00000000 EDX: 00000000 ESI: ef8f5800 EDI: 00000000 EBP: ef8f5800 ESP: e447edec DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 0000 GS: 0033 SS: 0068 Process modprobe (pid: 1350, ti=e447e000 task=ed35f4c0 task.ti=e447e000) Stack: 00000000 e447d900 c108ab97 ef8fe100 ef8f5800 00000000 ef82ae40 c10e5295 00000534 00000537 00000000 40000101 efa4e360 c108b88b e4462180 ef8fe100 00000000 ef8f5800 c10e5426 00000001 ef8f5964 00000000 00000000 00000000 Call Trace: [] sysfs_find_dirent+0x13/0x23 [] pnp_assign_port+0xe5/0x104 [] sysfs_create_link+0xd0/0x111 [] pnp_assign_resources+0x172/0x23a [] pnp_auto_config_dev+0x67/0xa6 [] pnp_request_card_device+0x9b/0xbe [] pnp_activate_dev+0x13/0x3c [] snd_cs423x_pnpc_detect+0xe4/0x35f [snd_cs4236] [] pnp_alloc+0xe/0x25 [] card_probe+0xba/0x107 [] pnp_register_card_driver+0xa3/0xb3 [] alsa_card_cs423x_init+0x2f/0x4f [snd_cs4236] [] sys_init_module+0x1379/0x149b [] unmap_region+0xe5/0x100 [] syscall_call+0x7/0xb ======================= Code: ac 29 c1 75 a7 b8 01 00 00 00 eb 02 31 c0 83 c4 0c 5b 5e 5f 5d c3 55 89 c5 57 56 53 6b da 1c 83 ec 0c 89 14 24 03 98 64 01 00 00 43 0c 00 00 00 30 0 f 85 f2 00 00 00 83 b8 54 01 00 00 00 75 EIP: [] pnp_check_port+0x15/0x125 SS:ESP 0068:e447edec ---[ end trace 149e6ce75dd3870f ]--- === With the attached: === pnp: the driver 'cs4236_isapnp' has been registered cs4236_isapnp 01:01.00: driver attached cs4236_isapnp 01:01.02: driver attached cs4236_isapnp 01:01.03: driver attached pnp: Port allocate: ed366400 - ed369500; Allocated: 448 bytes, size ofstruct: 28 - allocated ports: 8 pnp: Dma allocate: ed276a80 - ed2776c0; Allocated: 112 bytes, size ofstruct: 28 - allocated dmas: 2 cs4236_isapnp 01:01.00: activated BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000 printing eip: f0a4b5a8 *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT Modules linked in: snd_cs4236 snd_opl3_lib snd_hwdep snd_cs4236_lib snd_mpu401_uart snd_rawmidi snd_seq_device snd_cs4231_lib snd_pcm snd_timer snd soundcore snd_page_alloc nfsd lockd nfs_acl sunrpc exportfs Pid: 1348, comm: modprobe Not tainted (2.6.24-local #9) EIP: 0060:[] EFLAGS: 00010202 CPU: 0 EIP is at snd_cs423x_pnpc_detect+0x133/0x35f [snd_cs4236] EAX: 00000000 EBX: ef8f5800 ECX: 00000220 EDX: 00000001 ESI: 00000000 EDI: 00000534 EBP: ed338200 ESP: ed3cfe90 DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 0000 GS: 0033 SS: 0068 Process modprobe (pid: 1348, ti=ed3cf000 task=ed2c79f0 task.ti=ed3cf000) Stack: 00000286 00000001 f0a4d780 c10e330d c12b7c6c ef8f5e00 ed26fe80 ed3383bc ef8f5e00 ed26fe80 f0a4e0a4 00000003 c10e3652 f0a4d740 ef8f5600 f0a4d740 efa4f514 f0a8aa4c 00000000 c10e3b75 00000001 f0a4e440 f08de02f ed338fc4 Call Trace: [] pnp_alloc+0xe/0x25 [] card_probe+0xba/0x107 [] pnp_register_card_driver+0xa3/0xb3 [] alsa_card_cs423x_init+0x2f/0x4f [snd_cs4236] [] sys_init_module+0x1379/0x149b [] unmap_region+0xe5/0x100 [] syscall_call+0x7/0xb ======================= Code: d6 a4 f0 7e 10 8b 83 64 01 00 00 8b 40 1c 89 04 b5 60 d6 a4 f0 8b 83 64 01 00 00 8b 48 38 89 0c b5 40 d6 a4 f0 8b 83 7c 01 00 00 <8b> 00 89 04 b5 20 d6 a4 f0 8b 83 74 01 00 00 8b 00 89 04 b5 e0 EIP: [] snd_cs423x_pnpc_detect+0x133/0x35f [snd_cs4236] SS:ESP 0068:ed3cfe90 ---[ end trace 9f2b1188efb740f7 ]--- === For reference: # cat /sys/bus/pnp/devices/01\:01.00/options Dependent: 01 - Priority preferred port 0x534-0x534, align 0x3, size 0x4, 16-bit address decoding port 0x388-0x388, align 0x7, size 0x4, 16-bit address decoding port 0x220-0x220, align 0x1f, size 0x10, 16-bit address decoding irq 5 High-Edge dma 1 8-bit master byte-count type-F dma 0 8-bit master byte-count type-F Rene.