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0006722Kali LinuxGeneral Bugpublic2020-09-15 21:272021-09-14 20:02
Reporter[email protected] Assigned To 
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityalways
Status closedResolutionsuspended 
Product Version2020.3 
Summary0006722: pci errors fill up syslog using Realtek usb device
Description

Hi,
Informational -
Since moving to this kernel , System log fills hardrive with pci errors in relation to the Realtek usb device. There is some clear error with the Driver. Prior to this upgrade from Kernel 4 to 5 this was not a problem.

Linux [hostname] 5.6.0-kali2-amd64 0000001 SMP Debian 5.6.14-2kali1 (2020-06-10) x86_64 GNU/Linux
lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Kali
Description: Kali GNU/Linux Rolling
Release: 2020.2
Codename: kali-rolling

lsusb =>
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0bda:2838 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL2838 DVB-T

lspci =>
2:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8723BE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Dell Wireless 1801
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16, IOMMU group 8
I/O ports at d000 [size=256]
Memory at df100000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: rtl8723be
Kernel modules: rtl8723be

lsmod | grep rtl
rtl8723be 106496 0
btcoexist 167936 1 rtl8723be
rtl8723_common 28672 1 rtl8723be
rtl_pci 32768 1 rtl8723be
btrtl 24576 1 btusb
rtlwifi 102400 4 rtl_pci,rtl8723be,btcoexist,rtl8723_common
mac80211 892928 3 rtl_pci,rtl8723be,rtlwifi
bluetooth 667648 5 btrtl,btintel,btbcm,btusb
cfg80211 864256 2 rtlwifi,mac80211

Seems like similar bug as....
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1521173

Steps To Reproduce

Run airodump-ng to the wan/usb interface.
Log fills rapidly to TB's and system then effectively halts due to drive being full!!

Additional Information

Workaround - Disabled aer and msi in the kernel boot options for grub.

**When AER is enabled, a PCI Express device will automatically send an error message to the PCIe root port above it when the device captures an error. The Root Port, upon receiving an error reporting message, internally processes and logs the error message in its PCI Express capability structure

/etc/default/grub

GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_TIMEOUT=5
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet pci=noaer,nomsi"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""

Activities

hubbardmeister@gmail.com

[email protected]

2020-09-15 22:18

reporter   ~0013429

Put wrong driver in there - This is the RTL2838 DVB-T ...

usb 001 Device 002: ID 0bda:2838 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL2838 DVB-T, looking to see if there is a latest version i can find to install.
hubbardmeister@gmail.com

[email protected]

2020-09-16 16:38

reporter   ~0013442

The driver does not appear to have aer support, who owns this ?.

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/PCI/pcieaer-howto.html

from strace...

3809 ioctl(3, SIOCETHTOOL, 0x7ffdfc154670) = 0
3809 fstat(1, {st_mode=S_IFIFO|0600, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
3809 brk(NULL) = 0x559f646ab000
3809 brk(0x559f646cc000) = 0x559f646cc000
3809 write(1, "driver: rtl8723be\nversion: 5.6.0"..., 235 <unfinished ...>
3763 <... read resumed>"driver: rtl8723be\nversion: 5.6.0"..., 128) = 128
g0tmi1k

g0tmi1k

2021-09-14 20:02

administrator   ~0015103

This report has been filed against an old version of Kali. We will be closing this ticket due to inactivity.
Please could you see if you are able to replicate this issue with the latest version of Kali Linux (https://www.kali.org/get-kali/)?
If you are still facing the same problem, feel free to re-open the ticket. If you choose to do this, could you provide more information to the issue you are facing, and also give information about your setup?
For more information, please read: https://kali.training/topic/filing-a-good-bug-report/

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2020-09-15 21:27 [email protected] New Issue
2020-09-15 22:18 [email protected] Note Added: 0013429
2020-09-16 16:38 [email protected] Note Added: 0013442
2021-02-21 17:51 g0tmi1k View Status private => public
2021-09-14 20:02 g0tmi1k Status new => closed
2021-09-14 20:02 g0tmi1k Resolution open => suspended
2021-09-14 20:02 g0tmi1k Note Added: 0015103