Re: linux-2.6.23-mm1 crashed

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Sun Oct 14 2007 - 15:22:18 EST


On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 22:45:47 +0400 "Dave Milter" <davemilter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I build linux-2.6.23-mm1 and try to boot it using qemu,
> and it crashed with trace like this:
> do_page_fault
> error_code
> lock_acquire
> _spin_lock_irqsave
> gdth_timeout
> run_timer_softirq
> __do_softirq
> do_softirq
>
> I have screenshot, but have no idea, is it legal to include it, if I
> sent copy to lkml.
> config of kernel in attachment,
> I apply all three patches from hot-fixes.
>

The screenshot is here: http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/crash.png

It would appear that gdth_timeout() is passing a bad pointer into
spin_lock_irqsave().
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