Control: reassign -1 src:linux On Sb, 18 iul 20, 15:17:06, nbi wrote: > Package: linux-image-5.6.14 > Version: 5.6.14 > Severity: important > > Dear Maintainer, > > * What led up to the situation? > > Noticed that the sky2 ethernet driver was flooding /var/log/messages like so: > > Jul 18 15:03:06 nehalem kernel: [75100.182612] device eth0 entered > promiscuous mode > Jul 18 15:03:08 nehalem kernel: [75102.108331] device eth0 left promiscuous > mode > Jul 18 15:03:11 nehalem kernel: [75105.182616] device eth0 entered > promiscuous mode > Jul 18 15:03:13 nehalem kernel: [75107.175461] device eth0 left promiscuous > mode > Jul 18 15:03:16 nehalem kernel: [75110.222602] device eth0 entered > promiscuous mode > Jul 18 15:03:18 nehalem kernel: [75112.181979] device eth0 left promiscuous > mode > > This will ping-pong forever without corrective action. > > It can be stopped by enabling promiscuous mode on the interface, i.e. > 'ifconfig eth0 promisc'. That however should > not be necessary. By testing older kernels (and therefore older versions of > the sky2 driver) I discovered that as > of 4.9.2 and earlier this problem did not exist. At some point between 4.9.2 > and 5.6.14 changes to the driver > introduced this problem. > > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: bullseye/sid > APT prefers testing > APT policy: (500, 'testing') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > Foreign Architectures: i386 > > Kernel: Linux 5.6.14 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) > Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_WARN, TAINT_OOT_MODULE > Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), > LANGUAGE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
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