[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#618941: virtualbox-ose: 2.6.38 kernel panic due to deprecated use of CAP_SYSLOG

Michael Gilbert michael.s.gilbert at gmail.com
Sat Mar 19 18:35:09 UTC 2011


package: virtualbox-ose
version: 4.0.4-dfsg-1
severity: important

virtualbox causes a kernel panic with linux 2.6.38.  see below:

Kernel failure message 1:
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WARNING:
at /build/buildd-linux-2.6_2.6.38-1-amd64-t80ZCo/linux-2.6-2.6.38/debian/build/source_amd64_none/kernel/printk.c:288
do_syslog+0x83/0x439() Hardware name: System Product Name Attempt to
access syslog with CAP_SYS_ADMIN but no CAP_SYSLOG (deprecated).
Modules linked in: vboxnetadp(O) vboxnetflt(O) vboxdrv(O) binfmt_misc
ext2 loop snd_hda_codec_hdmi snd_hda_codec_via snd_hda_intel
snd_hda_codec snd_hwdep snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm usbhid hid
snd_seq_midi snd_rawmidi option usb_wwan usbserial snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq sg sr_mod snd_timer fglrx(P) cdrom r8169 uhci_hcd tpm_tis
snd_seq_device ehci_hcd snd tpm pata_jmicron mii usbcore tpm_bios
nls_base i2c_i801 soundcore snd_page_alloc i2c_core processor button
asus_atk0110 floppy pcspkr thermal_sys evdev ext3 jbd mbcache
sha256_generic aes_x86_64 aes_generic cbc dm_crypt dm_mod sd_mod
crc_t10dif ata_generic ata_piix libata scsi_mod Pid: 1344, comm:
syslog-ng Tainted: P           O 2.6.38-1-amd64 #1 Call Trace:
[<ffffffff81046cf8>] ? warn_slowpath_common+0x78/0x8c
[<ffffffff81046dab>] ? warn_slowpath_fmt+0x45/0x4a
[<ffffffff81104b03>] ? d_rehash+0x15/0x1b [<ffffffff81047e54>] ?
do_syslog+0x83/0x439 [<ffffffff811379b4>] ? proc_reg_open+0x39/0x129
[<ffffffff810eced1>] ? kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0xab/0xbb
[<ffffffff81140540>] ? kmsg_release+0x0/0x18 [<ffffffff81137a10>] ?
proc_reg_open+0x95/0x129 [<ffffffff8113797b>] ? proc_reg_open+0x0/0x129
[<ffffffff810f230e>] ? __dentry_open+0x15a/0x271 [<ffffffff810fb4ef>] ?
dget+0x12/0x1e [<ffffffff810fd28c>] ? finish_open+0x97/0x15f
[<ffffffff810fe2b8>] ? do_path_lookup+0x5d/0xfc [<ffffffff810ff008>] ?
do_filp_open+0x171/0x5be [<ffffffff81107d8a>] ? alloc_fd+0x69/0x10b
[<ffffffff810f20f3>] ? do_sys_open+0x56/0xda [<ffffffff81009952>] ?
system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
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