Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965255AbWJCFcP (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Oct 2006 01:32:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965256AbWJCFcP (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Oct 2006 01:32:15 -0400 Received: from sandeen.net ([209.173.210.139]:1848 "EHLO sandeen.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965255AbWJCFcO (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Oct 2006 01:32:14 -0400 Message-ID: <4521F5DE.7070302@sandeen.net> Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 00:32:14 -0500 From: Eric Sandeen User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Macintosh/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: 2.6.18-1.2689.fc6PAE: oops in ext3_clear_inode+0x52/0x8b References: <451C33B2.5000007@goop.org> <20060928142313.8848cec9.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20060928142313.8848cec9.akpm@osdl.org> 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: 1365 Lines: 37 Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 13:42:26 -0700 > Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > >> I just filed this in the Redhat bugzilla, since its from the FC6 distro >> kernel. But since its fairly close to current kernel.org kernels, I >> thought it might be relevent. >> >> The bug is https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=208488 >> >> Unfortunately this isn't a very useful report since it was a once-off, >> and there's a P-tainting module in there. But if anyone sees anything >> else like this, it's interesting. >> >> The oops is: >> >> BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 756e6547 > > 756e6547 -> uneG. Matches "GenuineIntel". > > That'll get written into a temporary page by the /proc/cpuinfo handler, so > it might just be a use-uninitialised. But strangely enough, it's the second report we've seen with this exact backtrace, and the same "Genu" ascii string where the i_default_acl should be. Both boxes had been through a suspend-to-ram recently, just in case that might matter. Seems like something more than random chance... -Eric - 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/