Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 07:42:42 +0200
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.18-1.2689.fc6PAE: oops in ext3_clear_inode+0x52/0x8b
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On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 12:32:14AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> >On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 13:42:26 -0700
> >Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> 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...

Can you give a pointer to the other report?

> -Eric

cu
Adrian

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