Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261851AbUCPXlF (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Mar 2004 18:41:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261854AbUCPXlF (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Mar 2004 18:41:05 -0500 Received: from mail58-s.fg.online.no ([148.122.161.58]:32488 "EHLO mail58-s.fg.online.no") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261851AbUCPXjk convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Mar 2004 18:39:40 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: vmware on linux 2.6.4 From: mru@kth.se (=?iso-8859-1?q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?=) Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 00:39:37 +0100 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) XEmacs/21.4 (Security Through Obscurity, linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1564 Lines: 43 I tried to build the vmware modules for kernel 2.6.4 and got this oops when loading vmmon.o: vmmon: no version magic, tainting kernel. vmmon: module license 'unspecified' taints kernel. Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000006e printing eip: c020160f *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[] Tainted: PF EFLAGS: 00010206 EIP is at vsnprintf+0x43/0x4b9 eax: c6f11c53 ebx: c6f11c00 ecx: 0000006e edx: 0000006e esi: c6f11c54 edi: c6f11c0c ebp: c6f11c67 esp: d2b61ee8 ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Process insmod (pid: 23426, threadinfo=d2b60000 task=d0f52720) Stack: e89fe000 c0101e8c 00000202 c01468d5 00000202 c0338394 00000286 d2b61f38 00000014 c6f11c54 0000006e c6f11c00 fffffff4 c6f11c0c c162d180 c023c3e9 d2b61f54 00000000 6f6d6d76 e8a2dd90 6fed6d76 c036ae08 c022fb77 c162d180 Call Trace: [] unmap_vm_area+0x27/0x67 [] class_simple_device_add+0xa9/0xff [] misc_register+0xb2/0x186 [] init_module+0x144/0x1e8 [vmmon] [] sys_init_module+0x105/0x211 [] sysenter_past_esp+0x52/0x71 Code: 80 3a 00 74 25 0f b6 02 3c 25 74 41 39 ee 77 06 88 06 8b 54 <4>vmmon: no version magic, tainting kernel. Suggestions welcome. -- M?ns Rullg?rd mru@kth.se - 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/