dmesg horror

Patrick Hood (splice@parodius.com)
Tue, 1 Jul 1997 19:19:13 -0700 (PDT)


heya,
i've gotten the following rude dmesg twice so far, and I'm not
at all sure what's causing the problem:

eth0: 21041 (DEC 21041 Tulip) at 0x6000, 00:c0:f0:15:f8:47, IRQ 10
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Adding Swap: 66524k swap-space (priority -1)
eth0: enabling 10TP port.
Warning: possible SYN flooding. Sending cookies.
Warning: possible SYN flooding. Sending cookies.
Warning: possible SYN flooding. Sending cookies.
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address c0000014
current->tss.cr3 = 00101000, %cr3 = 00101000
*pde = 00102067
*pte = 00000027
Oops: 0000
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010:[<00140ede>]
EFLAGS: 00010202
eax: 00000000 ebx: 00ee6258 ecx: 00000000 edx: 019ab558
esi: 00000033 edi: 00000000 ebp: 01da2f98 esp: 001ab1a0
ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 0018 ss: 0018
Process swapper (pid: 0, process nr: 0, stackpage=001a92fc)
Stack: 0000003f 00abab0c 00abab4c 001c0008 001b7d94 00000000 00000033 00000014
0000002b 00002000 00abab43 019ab558 00140533 00abab0c 00abab4c 001b7d94
00000000 00abab4c 001aeae8 001c0008 00000002 00191301 00000003 00000000
Call Trace: [<00140533>] [<00191301>] [<00111fc9>] [<00139938>] [<001178af>] [<0010a57b>] [<00109634>]
[<0010a5f5>] [<00109328>] [<00190018>] [<001091b5>] [<00117048>] [<00111458>]
Code: 83 7f 14 00 74 09 8b 53 14 8b 43 18 89 42 18 8b 54 24 14 8b
Aiee, killing interrupt handler
kfree of non-kmalloced memory: 001ab344, next= 92d5727b, order=8
kfree of non-kmalloced memory: 001ab334, next= 00000000, order=1732508
kfree of non-kmalloced memory: 001ab848, next= 001a6f9c, order=1732384
idle task may not sleep
idle task may not sleep
idle task may not sleep
idle task may not sleep
idle task may not sleep
Adding Swap: 66524k swap-space (priority -2)
Adding Swap: 66524k swap-space (priority -3)

the system in question:
Linux aitsu 2.0.30 #1 Mon Jun 9 21:55:21 PDT 1997 i486

32 megs of RAM, 64 megs of swap. I tried a swapoff and an mkswap -c to
alleviate this problem, to no avail. i have ip accounting and firewalling
compiled in, and I was thinking perhaps that could be conflicting with the
SYN protection. Anyone have any ideas?
- Patrick