[mythtv-users] Kernel Crash when starting up in au0828-video.c line 895

[jrh]

On Jun 27, 2012, at 11:27 PM, Devin Heitmueller wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 9:36 AM, jrh <jharbestonus at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On Apr 9, 2012, at 7:48 PM, Larry Finger wrote:
>> 
>>> On 04/09/2012 06:01 PM, jrh wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On Apr 8, 2012, at 10:36 PM, Larry Finger wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On 04/08/2012 04:38 PM, jrh wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> As you have seen, someone did not like my patch. That frequently happens when you try to touch a new area of the kernel. Thus, we need to find the real bug before any patch is likely to be accepted.
>>>>> 
>>>>> To help debug the problem, I have prepared a new version of the patch. This one will still remove the BUG_ON, but it will also dump the stack whenever the code gets or frees AU0828_RESOURCE_VIDEO. I hope this shows where the imbalance occurs.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Larry
>>>>> <au0828_fix.txt>
>>>> 
>>>> Larry, et al,
>>>> 
>>>> I replied to you via email with the logs from the above patch.
>>>> 
>>>> Hopefully it will shed some light.
>>>> 
>>>> Regards!
>>> 
>>> I am not sure why it happens, but AU0828_RESOURCE_VIDEO is freed 3 times in the segment you posted and never assigned. It will take a while, but I will see if I can prepare a patch to help us.
>>> 
>>> I'm glad you were able to compile the revised patch. I hope we have as much success in making the driver work.
>>> 
>>> Larry
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> Sounds like a plan!
> 
> FYI:  the problem in the au0828 driver has been identified and a fix
> is pending to go upstream.
> 
> http://git.kernellabs.com/?p=dheitmueller/cx23885_fixes.git;a=commit;h=226d020ff1b944f115cb075766cdeb29938431b0
> 
> Devin


Thank you! Any idea if it will be backported to kernel 3.2 and thenmigrated to ubuntu 12.04? I know, thats asking alot!

Regards!