Re: Oops: Unable to handle kernel null pointer

From: Martin Diehl (mdiehlcs@compuserve.de)
Date: Thu Sep 21 2000 - 04:45:57 EST


On Wed, 20 Sep 100, Sebastian Willing wrote:

It's almost impossible to extract some useful information from your
oops without your kernel symbols (Documentation/oops-tracing.txt).
However, to make a guess, this

> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at
virtual address 00000034
                ^^^^^^^^
looks similar to the quota issue, for wich I've posted a fix some days
ago. If, after applying ksymoops to your trace, you find out the oops
happens in check_idq() called from dquot_transfer() you might be
happy with this patch (search for [PATCH] and dquot_transfer in l-k).

Martin

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