Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267810AbUJRXbp (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Oct 2004 19:31:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267815AbUJRXbo (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Oct 2004 19:31:44 -0400 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:18885 "EHLO fire-1.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267810AbUJRXbd (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Oct 2004 19:31:33 -0400 Message-ID: <41745034.40501@osdl.org> Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 16:22:28 -0700 From: "Randy.Dunlap" Organization: OSDL User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: root@chaos.analogic.com CC: Denis Vlasenko , Linux kernel Subject: Re: OOPS while loading a Linux-2.6.8 module References: <200410161344.26932.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1128 Lines: 39 Richard B. Johnson wrote: > On Sat, 16 Oct 2004, Denis Vlasenko wrote: > >> On Friday 15 October 2004 17:34, Richard B. Johnson wrote: >> >>> >>> If you were to execute `strip` on a Linux-2.6.8 module, >>> you can OOPS the kernel. Gotta patch? I'll test immediately. >>> >>> >>> HeavyLink: falsely claims to have parameter shmem >>> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address >>> 00000000 >>> printing eip: >>> 00000000 >>> *pde = 07469001 >>> Oops: 0000 [#1] >>> SMP >>> Modules linked in: HeavyLink parport_pc lp parport autofs4 rfcomm >> >> ^^^^^^^^^ >> Is the source of this available anywhere? >> -- >> vda >> > > Any module does this. Here's one to experiment with since > it contains practically nothing.... Yep. Steve Hemminger posted patches that fix that problem and they *should* show up in 2.6.10-pre/-rc. -- ~Randy - 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/