From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040808 Firefox/0.9.3 Description of problem: This does not happen with kernel 2.6.8-1.521. Upon selecting to synchronize my palm unit, no synchronization occurs, and a dump/trace appears in the messages log: Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.6.9-1.3_FC2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot up system using 2.6.9-1.3_FC2 kernel 2. Start up pilot sync tool (I'm using jpilot-sync 3. press synchronize button on Palm device Actual Results: The palm did not synchronize, and the above-noted output appeared Expected Results: The palm should have synchronized Additional info:
/var/log/messages dump info: Nov 20 09:31:03 winblows kernel: usb 2-2: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter n ow attached to ttyUSB0 Nov 20 09:31:03 winblows kernel: usb 2-2: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter n ow attached to ttyUSB1 Nov 20 09:31:03 winblows kernel: usbcore: registered new driver visor Nov 20 09:31:03 winblows kernel: drivers/usb/serial/visor.c: USB HandSpring Viso r / Palm OS driver v2.1 Nov 20 09:31:03 winblows kernel: Debug: sleeping function called from invalid co ntext at include/linux/rwsem.h:43 Nov 20 09:31:03 winblows kernel: in_atomic():0[expected: 0], irqs_disabled():1 Nov 20 09:31:03 winblows kernel: [<0211c967>] __might_sleep+0x82/0x8c Nov 20 09:31:03 winblows kernel: [<0215ebdd>] rw_vm+0x20d/0x467 Nov 20 09:31:03 winblows kernel: [<22b3706c>] visor_open+0x6c/0x24c [visor] Nov 20 09:31:03 winblows kernel: [<22b3706c>] visor_open+0x6c/0x24c [visor] Nov 20 09:31:03 winblows kernel: [<0215f326>] get_user_size+0x2e/0x55 Nov 20 09:31:03 winblows kernel: [<22b3706c>] visor_open+0x6c/0x24c [visor] Nov 20 09:31:03 winblows kernel: [<021192e5>] __is_prefetch+0x1a2/0x290 Nov 20 09:31:03 winblows kernel: [<22b3706c>] visor_open+0x6c/0x24c [visor] Nov 20 09:31:03 winblows kernel: [<021196f3>] do_page_fault+0x320/0x4ff Nov 20 09:31:03 winblows kernel: [<021c6244>] inode_has_perm+0x57/0x5f Nov 20 09:31:03 winblows kernel: [<021c4bfe>] avc_has_perm+0x3f/0x49 Nov 20 09:31:03 winblows kernel: [<02147328>] buffered_rmqueue+0x1e9/0x20c Nov 20 09:31:03 winblows kernel: [<021193d3>] do_page_fault+0x0/0x4ff Nov 20 09:31:03 winblows kernel: [<22b3706c>] visor_open+0x6c/0x24c [visor] Nov 20 09:31:03 winblows kernel: [<22b2f2e4>] serial_open+0x95/0xd9 [usbserial] Nov 20 09:31:03 winblows kernel: [<0221def0>] tty_open+0x139/0x36c Nov 20 09:31:03 winblows kernel: [<02170be8>] chrdev_open+0x3bd/0x458 Nov 20 09:31:04 winblows kernel: [<021650d9>] dentry_open+0xbd/0x180 Nov 20 09:31:04 winblows kernel: [<02165016>] filp_open+0x36/0x3c Nov 20 09:31:04 winblows kernel: [<0216552c>] sys_open+0x31/0x7d Nov 20 09:31:04 winblows kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereferenc e at virtual address 00000000 Nov 20 09:31:04 winblows kernel: printing eip: Nov 20 09:31:04 winblows kernel: 22b3706c Nov 20 09:31:04 winblows kernel: *pde = 00000000 Nov 20 09:31:04 winblows kernel: Oops: 0000 [#1] Nov 20 09:31:04 winblows kernel: Modules linked in: visor usbserial snd soundcor e ipt_state ip_conntrack parport_pc lp parport osslinux(U) nfsd exportfs md5 ipv 6 nfs lockd sunrpc via_rhine mii ipt_REJECT iptable_filter ip_tables floppy sg d m_mod uhci_hcd button battery ac ext3 jbd usb_storage ide_scsi aic7xxx sd_mod sc si_mod Nov 20 09:31:04 winblows kernel: CPU: 0 Nov 20 09:31:04 winblows kernel: EIP: 0060:[<22b3706c>] Tainted: P VLI Nov 20 09:31:04 winblows kernel: EFLAGS: 00010006 (2.6.9-1.3_FC2) Nov 20 09:31:04 winblows kernel: EIP is at visor_open+0x6c/0x24c [visor] Nov 20 09:31:04 winblows kernel: eax: 21cb8600 ebx: 00000206 ecx: 22b3afa0 edx: 10cd5720 Nov 20 09:31:04 winblows kernel: esi: 00000000 edi: 21cb8600 ebp: 150c0f60 esp: 1899aed0 Nov 20 09:31:04 winblows kernel: ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Nov 20 09:31:04 winblows kernel: Process jpilot-sync (pid: 3879, threadinfo=1899 a000 task=18b26650) Nov 20 09:31:04 winblows kernel: Stack: 21cb8600 150c0f60 10c8b000 00000000 22b2 f2e4 10cd5720 ffffffed 10cd5720 Nov 20 09:31:04 winblows kernel: 10c8b000 00000000 0221def0 00000802 0bc0 0000 10c8b000 00000000 1899a000 Nov 20 09:31:04 winblows kernel: 1af25c04 2186fb00 00000000 02170be8 0000 0000 10cd5720 00000000 10cd5720 Nov 20 09:31:04 winblows kernel: Call Trace: Nov 20 09:31:04 winblows kernel: [<22b2f2e4>] serial_open+0x95/0xd9 [usbserial] Nov 20 09:31:04 winblows kernel: [<0221def0>] tty_open+0x139/0x36c Nov 20 09:31:04 winblows kernel: [<02170be8>] chrdev_open+0x3bd/0x458 Nov 20 09:31:04 winblows kernel: [<021650d9>] dentry_open+0xbd/0x180 Nov 20 09:31:04 winblows kernel: [<02165016>] filp_open+0x36/0x3c Nov 20 09:31:04 winblows kernel: [<0216552c>] sys_open+0x31/0x7d Nov 20 09:31:04 winblows kernel: Code: Bad EIP value.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 140005 ***