Re: [2.6.28] NULL pointer dereference at get_stats()

From: KOSAKI Motohiro
Date: Tue Dec 30 2008 - 10:16:32 EST


Hi

>> it doesn't have any network card initialization log, but kernel
>> crashed in network driver.
>> in addition, loaded module list indicate your network card is pcnet32,
>> but pcnet32 doesn't have
>> get_stats() function. (instead, it has pcnet32_get_stats() )
>
> I think pcnet32 is unrelated.
> It seems to me that the problem is loopback device.

my ia32 box can't reproduce your problem although loopback doesn't
depend on any hardware.
I suspect vmware issue.


>
> I added "init=/bin/bash" and tried below commands.
> ----------------------------------------
> # lsmod
> Module Size Used by
> mptspi 19208 1
> mptscsih 33152 1 mptspi
> mptbase 74084 2 mptspi,mptscsih
> scsi_transport_spi 23296 1 mptspi
> sd_mod 27416 2
> scsi_mod 138260 4 mptspi,mptscsih,scsi_transport_spi,sd_mod
> ext3 109576 1
> jbd 43924 1 ext3
> uhci_hcd 22800 0
> ohci_hcd 23696 0
> ehci_hcd 33036 0
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