Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758038Ab3ENShW (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 May 2013 14:37:22 -0400 Received: from mail-ve0-f179.google.com ([209.85.128.179]:47640 "EHLO mail-ve0-f179.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757767Ab3ENShV (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 May 2013 14:37:21 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: From: Javier Domingo Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 20:36:59 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Kernel OOPS using auditd Debian 3.2 on a /sys file audit To: linux-kernel-mail Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1471 Lines: 39 I didn't get any reply, is this mailing list still valid, or should I ask elsewhere? (this is a ping message) Javier Domingo 2013/5/2 Javier Domingo : > Hi, > > I am currently having problems with the cpu scaling (something is > touching the /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu?/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq), > and I decided to use inotify to seek if something was being changed or > not. > > This gave no problems to me, but something is writing just before me, > and I can't know from the inotifywait cmd who. Then, I found auditdl, > so I put this command onto it: > > # auditctl -w /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu?/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq > > And just after this, this totally blocking OOPS was triggered: > [ 5072.685483] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference > at 0000000000000038 > [ 5072.714302] IP: [] sysfs_dentry_revalidate+0x9/0xa2 > [ 5072.741249] PGD 12eca4067 PUD 12ec62067 PMD 0 > [ 5072.768102] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP > > I tried to make sysrq, but didn't work. I have repeated several times > this and it always crashes. I am attaching the photo of the second > time because it is much longer than the second one. > > Hope this helps on something! > > Javier Domingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/