Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 16:29:30 +0100
From: Marc Koschewski <marc@osknowledge.org>
To: Doug McNaught <doug@mcnaught.org>
Cc: Marc Koschewski <marc@osknowledge.org>, Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>,
       Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
       Linux-LKLM <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG GIT] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address e1380288
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* Doug McNaught <doug@mcnaught.org> [2006-02-11 10:19:29 -0500]:

> Marc Koschewski <marc@osknowledge.org> writes:
> 
> > Moreover, I don't know in what way a PCI graphics adapter is pissing off USB
> > devices. Is there a chance to?
> 
> Sure.  Drivers run in kernel mode and, if buggy, can scribble all over

Sure thing.

> any part of kernel memory, causing problems in completely unrelated
> places.

But the trace I sent didn't (directly) do any memory allocation so the case was
clear to me.

>From a developers point of view I totally agree that doing some bad code 'here'
might crash us 'there'. But the backtrace didn't look like this to me...

Marc
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