Re: 2.6.36-rc1 oopses at boot time in kobject allocation

From: Greg KH
Date: Thu Aug 19 2010 - 16:37:39 EST


On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 04:22:33PM -0400, Benjamin Gilbert wrote:
> 2.6.36-rc1 and 2.6.36-rc1-127-g763008c fail to boot for me:

Can you run 'git bisect' to try to track this down?

> Other observations:
>
> - Originally the backtrace originated from the yenta driver, so I
> disabled PCMCIA support and it switched to occurring during EHCI
> init.
>
> - Disabling kmemleak at boot time prevents the "cannot insert" error
> but not the bad kernel paging request.
>
> - The offending address is "pci:" in little-endian ASCII.

This sounds like a memory overwrite problem somewhere, wierd.

thanks,

greg k-h
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