[vlc-devel] Re: Possible DVB-s Bug in VLC and a big memory leak

[Christophe Massiot]

On Thu, Sep 29, 2005, Ivo Steinmann wrote:

> Im using gentoo amd64 kernel-2.6.13 with a Hauppauge DVB-s Nova CI with 
> vlc-0.8.2. The first time I start vlc for dvb-s streaming, I get this 
> message (in dmesg). vlc is working, as long as the stream is 
> unencrypted. Encrypted streams dont work, because the ca0 device crash.

This is a bug in the DVB driver, not in VLC. You should A/ try with a
stock kernel from kernel.org, not the usual butchery performed by the
gentoo guys B/ tell the linuxtv.org people about that.

> dvb_ca adapter 0: DVB CAM detected and initialised successfully
> general protection fault: 0000 [1]
> CPU 0
> Modules linked in: budget_ci budget_core dvb_core saa7146 ttpci_eeprom 
> stv0299 tda1004x i2c_core usb_storage via_rhine sk98lin
> Pid: 8434, comm: vlc Not tainted 2.6.13
> RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8027593b>] <ffffffff8027593b>{__up_read+11}
> RSP: 0018:ffff81001ad17ea8  EFLAGS: 00210082
> RAX: 0000000000000068 RBX: ffff810000000000 RCX: 0000000000000001
> RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffc200005fc005 RDI: f000ea21f000ea91
> RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000009 R09: 0000000000000000
> R10: 0000000000000003 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff810021cc4cc0
> R13: 0000000000000001 R14: ffff810038459280 R15: 0000000000000001
> FS:  0000000000722500(0063) GS:ffffffff80549800(0000) 
> knlGS:0000000000000000
> CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
> CR2: 00000000013ae188 CR3: 000000002b50c000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
> Process vlc (pid: 8434, threadinfo ffff81001ad16000, task ffff81001ad15900)
> Stack: 0000000000000000 0000000000200282 ffff810000000000 ffffffff8805c8eb
>      0000000000000000 0000000000000145 ffff810021cc4cc0 ffff81003845928c
>      0000000000000000 ffffffff80182479
> Call Trace:<ffffffff8805c8eb>{:dvb_core:dvb_ca_en50221_io_poll+187}
>      <ffffffff80182479>{sys_poll+489} <ffffffff80181930>{__pollwait+0}
>      <ffffffff8016f39f>{sys_write+111} <ffffffff8010e8f6>{system_call+126}


-- 
Christophe Massiot.

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