Bug report: refill freelist bug in 2.0.30

Mike A. Harris (mharris@blackwidow.saultc.on.ca)
Sun, 8 Jun 1997 05:41:05 -0400 (EDT)

I've previously sent in a bug report about this, and I just had
another incident. Once again running Netscape Communicator. I
hope that this information is useful to someone. If not, I'd
appreciate it greatly if someone could point me to FAQ's, and
other documentation, that could make further postings more
useful. Also, any programs that could generate nicer looking
reports from syslog and the /proc/ heirarchy. Also, possibly a
disassembly of the "code" part at the end.

I'd also appreciate knowing of any patches that fix this bug.
Please reply via email as I'm not on the list.

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Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address c0000018
current->tss.cr3 = 003c8000, %cr3= 003c8000
*pde = 00102067
*pte = 00000027
Oops: 0000
CPU: 0
EIP:0010:[find_candidate+212/244]
EFLAGS: 00010206
eax: 00000000 ebx: 003c5de4
ecx: 00000000 edx: 001e89e0
esi: 00000000 edi: 003c5de4
ebp: 00000400 esp: 003c5dac
ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018
Process lurkftp (pid: 10469, process nr: 38, stackpage=003c5000)
Stack: 003c5de4 00000000 00000400 00010000 00000000 001235e5
004f9498 003c5de4 00000400 00012359 003c0303 00000001 00000400
003c0303 00000004 00000400 00ab2718 0000005a 0012392f 00000303
00123a5e 00000400 00012359 003c5ef4
Call Trace:
[refill_freelist+153/948]
[getblk+47/936]
[getblk+350/936]
[ext2_alloc_block+128/412]
[block_getblk+348/612]
[ext2_getblk+385/556]
[ext2_file_write+389/1116]
[n_tty_receive_buf+2799/2852]
[do_bottom_half+59/96]
[handle_bottom_half+11/32]
[sys_write+271/328]
[do_bottom_half+59/96]
[system_call+82/128]
Code: 8b 40 18 89 44 24 10 ff 0f 83 7c 24 10 00 0f 85 38 ff ff ff

Mike A. Harris | http://blackwidow.saultc.on.ca/~mharris
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