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has caused the Debian Bug report #965292,
regarding linux-image-5.6.14: Sky2 ethernet driver bug
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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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--- Begin Message ---
Hi
This bug was filed for a very old kernel or the bug is old itself
without resolution.
If you can reproduce it with
- the current version in unstable/testing
- the latest kernel from backports
please reopen the bug, see https://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control
for details.
Regards,
Salvatore
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