RE: Kernel panic in add_entropy_words

From: Kim Le
Date: Mon Apr 03 2006 - 22:11:18 EST



Thanks for the response.
It is a kernel module that we developed.
The kernel itself is not modified.

My question is if any one ecounter a similar panic? And what could possible cause it.

Thanks
Kim

-----Original Message-----
From: Arjan van de Ven [mailto:arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 6:12 PM
To: Kim Le
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Kernel panic in add_entropy_words


On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 13:24 -0700, Kim Le wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Any one ever encounter this kernel panic.
> I am pulling my hair finding the fix for this. So any help is appreciate.
> Please reply to my email address if you could.
>
> Thanks
> Kim
>
> EIP is at add_entropy_words [kernel] 0x92 (2.4.18-3-meruenabled)
> eax: 08000001 ebx: 1fa96582 ecx: 00000007 edx: c16b2b00
> esi: c16ba300 edi: 0000001f ebp: 00000000 esp: dc809d08
> ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
> Process coordinator (pid: 1266, stackpage=dc809000)
> Stack: c16ba300 00000400 c16ba280 00000000 c017c4e9 c16ba300 c1757b3c 00000002
> dc809d3c dc809d3c c02e4c00 c011d6d9 c16ba280 c02fe72c c02fe72c c02ecb14
> c02ecb00 c0120699 c029de60 dc809db0 00000000 00000000 00000000 c011d60b
> Call Trace: [<c017c4e9>] batch_entropy_process [kernel] 0x59
> [<c011d6d9>] __run_task_queue [kernel] 0x49
> [<c0120699>] tqueue_bh [kernel] 0x19
> [<c011d60b>] bh_action [kernel] 0x1b
> [<c011d51e>] tasklet_hi_action [kernel] 0x4e
> [<c011d33b>] do_softirq [kernel] 0x4b
> [<c010a06c>] do_IRQ [kernel] 0x9c
> [<c012fd87>] kmalloc [kernel] 0x37
> [<e08d9e43>] kcomm_mailbox_sendto [kcomm] 0x6b
> [<c01b627f>] alloc_skb [kernel] 0xdf
> [<e08d9f8a>] kcomm_mailbox_alloc_skb [kcomm] 0x12
> [<e08dcb78>] kcomm_socket_sendmsg [kcomm] 0x8c
> [<e08d6634>] nulldevname.0 [ip_tables] 0x0


what is this kcomm thing? You forgot to put in a pointer to the source
of that :)
Also you seem to run a very modified kernel... what did you change?


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