Re: Oops in NFS (RHEL4, but also in kernel bugzilla)

From: Daniel J Blueman
Date: Mon Jun 23 2008 - 14:17:23 EST


On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 5:47 PM, Ian Soboroff <isoboroff@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
> that has been posted to gmane.linux.kernel as well.
>
> "Daniel J Blueman" <daniel.blueman@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> Has 4KB stacks been disabled? You can check the config file for
>> CONFIG_4KSTACKS.
>
> This kernel has 4KSTACKS enabled.

There is chance that you've overrun the 4KB stack. Can you retest with
CONFIG_4KSTACK disabled perhaps?

>> It may also be worth feeding that into the bugzilla entry, to
>> eliminate one possibility, as 'bad EIP value' looks suspicious of
>> stack corrption.
>
> Ok, will do. Although that bugzilla entry is from 2007 and no one seems
> to have looked at it at all...
--
Daniel J Blueman
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