bug: many pcieport errors

From: Berto Gerard <hidden>
Date: 2018-08-02 19:13:29

Hello,

I help on the Ubuntu French forum and we see many times the same 
problem: kern.log and syslog are filled with an error which is repeated. 
Here is the error:

|[ 22.275320] pcieport 0000:00:1c.4: device [8086:9d14] error 
status/mask=00000001/00000000 [ 22.275322] pcieport 0000:00:1c.4: [ 0] 
Receiver Error (First) [ 22.277322] pcieport 0000:00:1c.4: PCIe Bus 
Error: severity=Corrected, type=Physical Layer, id=00e4(Receiver ID) [ 
22.277325] pcieport 0000:00:1c.4: device [8086:9d14] error 
status/mask=00000001/00000000 [ 22.277327] pcieport 0000:00:1c.4: [ 0] 
Receiver Error (First) [ 22.278793] pcieport 0000:00:1c.4: PCIe Bus 
Error: severity=Corrected, type=Physical Layer, id=00e4(Receiver ID) [ 
22.278795] pcieport 0000:00:1c.4: device [8086:9d14] error 
status/mask=00000001/00000000 [ 22.278796] pcieport 0000:00:1c.4: [ 0] 
Receiver Error (First) [ 22.279211] pcieport 0000:00:1c.4: PCIe Bus 
Error: severity=Corrected, type=Physical Layer, id=00e4(Receiver ID) [ 
22.279214] pcieport 0000:00:1c.4: device [8086:9d14] error 
status/mask=00000001/00000000 [ 22.279216] pcieport 0000:00:1c.4: [ 0] 
Receiver Error (First) [ 22.279605] pcieport 0000:00:1c.4: PCIe Bus 
Error: severity=Corrected, type=Physical Layer, id=00e4(Receiver ID) [ 
22.279608] pcieport 0000:00:1c.4: device [8086:9d14] error 
status/mask=00000001/00000000 [ 22.279610] pcieport 0000:00:1c.4: [ 0] 
Receiver Error (First) [ 22.399607] pcieport 0000:00:1c.4: PCIe Bus 
Error: severity=Corrected, type=Physical Layer, id=00e4(Receiver ID) [ 
22.399611] pcieport 0000:00:1c.4: device [8086:9d14] error 
status/mask=00000001/00000000 [ 22.399613] pcieport 0000:00:1c.4: [ 0] 
Receiver Error (First) [ 22.538521] pcieport 0000:00:1c.4: PCIe Bus 
Error: severity=Corrected, type=Physical Layer, id=00e4(Receiver ID) [ 
22.538525] pcieport 0000:00:1c.4: device [8086:9d14] error 
status/mask=00000001/00000000 [ 22.538527] pcieport 0000:00:1c.4: [ 0] 
Receiver Error (First) |||||

||This problem leads to filled hard drive (and it's fast!) for Ubuntu 
16.04 versions, and for the 18.04.1 version, the live session can't be 
used: screen remains black with these errors written in white.

These two boot parameters avoid the problem but they have drawbacks, so 
it's a just a bypass solution: "pci=noaer" or "pci_aspm=off"

We also see that

|[8086:9d14]|

in the error is an intel bridge (Skylake architecture), and

|0000:00:1c.4|

is the RTL8723BE wifi card.
Many of the Ubuntu's French forum threads have the RTL8723BE card, and 
every thread has this intel bridge. So I don't know if it's specific of 
the RTL8723BE card, but on my pc, I don't have the problem and I have 
the RTL8723BE card but not the same intel bridge (Haswell architecture) 
and I tried with Xubuntu 16.04.1, Ubuntu 16.04.3 and Xubuntu 18.04.1 and 
no errors logged.

When we do
sudo modprobe -r rtl8723be
the errors stop logged. So maybe the boot parameter 
"modprobe.blacklist=rtl8723be" could be useful for tests.

That's all we know. If you have questions or some tests for finding 
where the problem is, don't hesitate.
Best regards
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