Bug 1821892 - kernel 6.5: Unknown ioctl 1976
Summary: kernel 6.5: Unknown ioctl 1976
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 32
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2020-04-07 19:07 UTC by Harald Reindl
Modified: 2021-05-25 15:54 UTC (History)
19 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2021-05-25 15:54:10 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Harald Reindl 2020-04-07 19:07:51 UTC
i have running all sdort of 6.5 F32 kernelson F31 asw ell as on F32 for prepare and test wireguard and i am not sure how serious this since all works:

[    3.317671] Unknown ioctl 1976
[    3.317845] Unknown ioctl 1976
[    3.375700] Unknown ioctl 1976
[    3.376162] Unknown ioctl 1976

at least it's woth a notice

Comment 1 Harald Reindl 2020-04-16 05:00:34 UTC
FWIW: that seems basicly "only" affect VMware guests on VMware Workstation as well es ESXi 6.5/6.7/7.0 but suddenly unknown ioctls are alarming

Comment 2 Benjamin Bellec 2020-04-30 08:10:04 UTC
I noticed the same message, within a Fedora 32 on ESX 6.5 U2.

Comment 3 Harald Reindl 2020-05-11 17:41:54 UTC
obviously open-vm-tools and with open-vm-tools-11.1.0 this appears not only at boot but regulary and only with Linux 5.6.x



May 11 19:01:53 buildserver.thelounge.net kernel: Unknown ioctl 1976
May 11 19:01:53 buildserver.thelounge.net kernel: Unknown ioctl 1976
May 11 19:01:53 buildserver.thelounge.net kernel: Unknown ioctl 1976
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May 11 19:01:54 buildserver.thelounge.net kernel: Unknown ioctl 1976
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May 11 19:01:54 buildserver.thelounge.net kernel: Unknown ioctl 1976
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May 11 19:02:24 buildserver.thelounge.net kernel: Unknown ioctl 1976
May 11 19:02:24 buildserver.thelounge.net kernel: Unknown ioctl 1976
May 11 19:02:24 buildserver.thelounge.net kernel: Unknown ioctl 1976
May 11 19:02:54 buildserver.thelounge.net kernel: Unknown ioctl 1976
May 11 19:02:54 buildserver.thelounge.net kernel: Unknown ioctl 1976
May 11 19:02:54 buildserver.thelounge.net kernel: Unknown ioctl 1976
May 11 19:03:24 buildserver.thelounge.net kernel: Unknown ioctl 1976
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May 11 19:05:54 buildserver.thelounge.net kernel: Unknown ioctl 1976
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May 11 19:08:24 buildserver.thelounge.net kernel: Unknown ioctl 1976
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May 11 19:08:24 buildserver.thelounge.net kernel: Unknown ioctl 1976
May 11 19:12:54 buildserver.thelounge.net kernel: Unknown ioctl 1976
May 11 19:12:54 buildserver.thelounge.net kernel: Unknown ioctl 1976
May 11 19:12:54 buildserver.thelounge.net kernel: Unknown ioctl 1976
May 11 19:17:54 buildserver.thelounge.net kernel: Unknown ioctl 1976
May 11 19:17:54 buildserver.thelounge.net kernel: Unknown ioctl 1976
May 11 19:17:54 buildserver.thelounge.net kernel: Unknown ioctl 1976
May 11 19:22:54 buildserver.thelounge.net kernel: Unknown ioctl 1976
May 11 19:22:54 buildserver.thelounge.net kernel: Unknown ioctl 1976
May 11 19:22:54 buildserver.thelounge.net kernel: Unknown ioctl 1976
May 11 19:27:54 buildserver.thelounge.net kernel: Unknown ioctl 1976
May 11 19:27:54 buildserver.thelounge.net kernel: Unknown ioctl 1976
May 11 19:27:54 buildserver.thelounge.net kernel: Unknown ioctl 1976
May 11 19:32:54 buildserver.thelounge.net kernel: Unknown ioctl 1976
May 11 19:32:54 buildserver.thelounge.net kernel: Unknown ioctl 1976
May 11 19:32:54 buildserver.thelounge.net kernel: Unknown ioctl 1976
May 11 19:37:54 buildserver.thelounge.net kernel: Unknown ioctl 1976
May 11 19:37:54 buildserver.thelounge.net kernel: Unknown ioctl 1976
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Comment 4 Harald Reindl 2020-05-11 17:42:49 UTC
and that does *not* happen on a Fedora 28 with a custom linux 5.6.x and a recent open-vm-tools

Comment 5 Oliver Kurth 2020-05-11 18:55:40 UTC
Like dsouders suggested on https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/issues/425, please make sure that the vmci and vsock modules are loaded:

See https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/master/open-vm-tools/lib/include/vmci_sockets.h

define VMCI_SOCKETS_DEFAULT_DEVICE "/dev/vsock"
define VMCI_SOCKETS_CLASSIC_ESX_DEVICE "/vmfs/devices/char/vsock/vsock"
if defined(linux)
define VMCI_SOCKETS_VERSION 1972
define VMCI_SOCKETS_GET_AF_VALUE 1976    <---------
define VMCI_SOCKETS_GET_LOCAL_CID 1977
define VMCI_SOCKETS_UUID_2_CID 1991

Comment 6 Harald Reindl 2020-05-11 18:59:16 UTC
the opposite is true, add the following lines to your existing blacklistfile in /etc/modprobe.d/

blacklist vsock_loopback
blacklist vmw_vsock_virtio_transport_common
install vsock_loopback /usr/bin/true
install vmw_vsock_virtio_transport_common /usr/bin/true

Vmware-HA and Vmware-DataProtection don't need all that stuff
in the best case your lsmod looks like this and everything is fine

[root@master:~]$ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
xt_multiport           20480  7
ipt_REJECT             16384  16
nf_reject_ipv4         16384  1 ipt_REJECT
xt_iprange             20480  4
xt_conntrack           16384  9
nf_conntrack          159744  1 xt_conntrack
nf_defrag_ipv6         24576  1 nf_conntrack
nf_defrag_ipv4         16384  1 nf_conntrack
libcrc32c              16384  1 nf_conntrack
iptable_filter         16384  1
crct10dif_pclmul       16384  1
crc32_pclmul           16384  0
ghash_clmulni_intel    16384  0
vmw_balloon            24576  0
vmxnet3                65536  0
vmw_vmci               86016  1 vmw_balloon
ip_tables              32768  3 iptable_filter
crc32c_intel           24576  3
vmw_pvscsi             32768  2

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Comment 8 Ben Cotton 2021-05-25 15:54:10 UTC
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