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Re: kernel Oops on Linux 9.4.9
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Chen)
Fri Jun 17 21:38:14 2005
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Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 21:37:57 -0400
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Kevin Chen wrote:
> Today, on scyther.mit.edu (updated to Linux-Athena 9.4.9 last night):
>
> in my console window:
>
> scyther kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at
> virtual address 0000001a
> scyther kernel: printing eip:
> scyther kernel: *pde=00000000
> scyther kernel: Oops: 00000 [#1]
Here's what /var/log/messages says:
Jun 17 21:14:32 scyther kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer
dereference at virtual address 0000001a
Jun 17 21:14:32 scyther kernel: printing eip:
Jun 17 21:14:32 scyther kernel: c01bf732
Jun 17 21:14:32 scyther kernel: *pde = 00000000
Jun 17 21:14:32 scyther kernel: Oops: 0000 [#1]
Jun 17 21:14:32 scyther kernel: Modules linked in: smbfs nls_utf8
ntfs(U) nvidia(U) md5 ipv6 nfsd exportfs lockd libafs(U) i2c_dev
i2c_core sunrpc vfat fat dm_mod button battery ac uhci_hcd ehci_hcd
hw_random snd_emu10k1_synth snd_emux_synth snd_seq_virmidi
snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq_midi_emul snd_seq snd_emu10k1 snd_rawmidi
snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm snd_timer snd_seq_device
snd_ac97_codec snd_page_alloc snd_util_mem snd_hwdep snd soundcore
8139too mii floppy ext3 jbd sd_mod scsi_mod
Jun 17 21:14:32 scyther kernel: CPU: 0
Jun 17 21:14:32 scyther kernel: EIP: 0060:[<c01bf732>] Tainted: PF
VLI
Jun 17 21:14:32 scyther kernel: EFLAGS: 00010286 (2.6.9-5.EL)
Jun 17 21:14:32 scyther kernel: EIP is at
inode_doinit_with_dentry+0x26/0x63f
Jun 17 21:14:32 scyther kernel: eax: 00000000 ebx: f662b000 ecx:
f111fc18 edx: f111fc18
Jun 17 21:14:32 scyther kernel: esi: f111fc18 edi: f111fc18 ebp:
f947f680 esp: d3671e60
Jun 17 21:14:32 scyther kernel: ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068
Jun 17 21:14:32 scyther kernel: Process touch (pid: 7601,
threadinfo=d3671000 task=d5057970)
Jun 17 21:14:32 scyther kernel: Stack: 00000000 00000000 00000000
f662b000 00008180 f662b000 f111fc18 d3671ea4
Jun 17 21:14:32 scyther kernel: f947f680 c017ca68 00000000
f111fc18 f945722b f111fc9c f6123438 f6443c00
Jun 17 21:14:32 scyther kernel: f662b000 00008000 00000000
00000000 00000000 00001000 00000000 00008180
Jun 17 21:14:32 scyther kernel: Call Trace:
Jun 17 21:14:32 scyther kernel: [<c017ca68>] d_instantiate+0x12e/0x131
Jun 17 21:14:32 scyther kernel: [<f945722b>]
afs_linux_create+0x1ff/0x2d5 [libafs]
Jun 17 21:14:32 scyther kernel: [<c0172887>] vfs_create+0xb8/0xef
Jun 17 21:14:32 scyther kernel: [<c0172c58>] open_namei+0x181/0x57e
Jun 17 21:14:32 scyther kernel: [<c0161412>] filp_open+0x23/0x3c
Jun 17 21:14:32 scyther kernel: [<c03003b2>] __cond_resched+0x14/0x3b
Jun 17 21:14:32 scyther kernel: [<c01d8e46>]
direct_strncpy_from_user+0x3e/0x5d
Jun 17 21:14:32 scyther kernel: [<c01618e9>] sys_open+0x31/0x7d
Jun 17 21:14:32 scyther kernel: [<c0301bfb>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
Jun 17 21:14:32 scyther kernel: Code: 5b 5e 5f 5d c3 55 57 89 d7 56 53
83 ec 14 89 44 24 0c 8b 80 ac 01 00 00 c7 44 24 04 00 00 00 00 c7 04 24
00 00 00 00 89 44 24 08 <80> 78 1a 00 0f 85 85 04 00 00 89 c3 31 c9 ba
6b 00 00 00 b8 a4
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Kevin Chen
http://www.sneswhiz.com/
