From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: divide error: 0000 in fib6_rule_match [Re: 2.6.18-rc4-mm3]
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 23:22:48 +0200
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> I cannot work out how the heck you got a divide instruction in
> fib6_rule_match().

This might be another symptom of the broken smp-alternatives patch.
It tended to randomly corrupt some instructions by inserting different
bytes which then crash in interesting ways.

I already sent a fix for that, but it's not in yet.

-Andi
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