oops in 2.1.63+f00f patch

Simon's Mailing List Account (slk@scan.shodor.org)
Fri, 14 Nov 1997 01:43:36 -0500 (EST)


Just got an oops in 2.1.63+f00f patch. this was when i killed
xquake using the window manager. (accidentally started it on a 16-bit
display)

ksymoops says:
>>EIP: c012c362 <dput+da/ec>

Code: c012c362 <dput+da/ec>
Code: c012c362 <dput+da/ec> c7 05 00 00 00 movl $0x0,0x0
Code: c012c367 <dput+df/ec> 00 00 00 00 00
Code: c012c372 <dput+ea/ec> 83 c4 10 addl $0x10,%esp
Code: c012c375 <d_invalidate+1/2c> 5b popl %ebx
Code: c012c376 <d_invalidate+2/2c> 5e popl %esi
Code: c012c377 <d_invalidate+3/2c> c3 ret
Code: c012c378 <d_invalidate+4/2c> 89 f6 movl %esi,%esi
Code: c012c37a <d_invalidate+6/2c> 53 pushl %ebx
Code: c012c37b <d_invalidate+7/2c> 8b 00 movl (%eax),%eax
Code: c012c383 <d_invalidate+f/2c> 90 nop
Code: c012c384 <d_invalidate+10/2c> 90 nop
Code: c012c385 <d_invalidate+11/2c> 90 nop

and the original oops was
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000
current->tss.cr3 = 00101000, %cr3 = 00101000
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0002
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010:[<c012c362>]
EFLAGS: 00010282
eax: 00000022 ebx: c0c28160 ecx: c020248c edx: c68fe000
esi: ffffffff edi: 00000000 ebp: c0c28160 esp: c269ff44
ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Process xquake.real (pid: 6566, process nr: 104, stackpage=c269f000)
Stack: c01e0950 ffffffff c0003be0 c08d3240 c1a3f480 c077fb70 c0120525 c0c28160
00000000 c1a3f480 00000000 00000001 c012057f c1a3f480 00000003 00000007
c28516a0 c0113dbc c1a3f480 0000000d c269e000 c269ffc4 ffffffff c0109360
Call Trace: [<c01e0950>] [<c0120525>] [<c012057f>] [<c0113dbc>] [<c0109360>] [<c0109491>]
Code: c7 05 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 83 c4 10 5b 5e c3 89 f6 53 8b

P54C/133 (with f00f bug), 112MB RAM, kernel compiled with gcc 2.7.2.1

Simon Karpen slk@shodor.org
Sysadmin, Shodor Education Foundation

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