Oopsen?

From: Gene Heskett
Date: Wed Mar 11 2009 - 13:09:20 EST

Greetings everybody;

With less than 30 minutes uptime on a new bios version, running 2.6.28.7 on a
quad core AMD 9550 machine, I get this in the logs (and a heck of a mess from
sealert which has learned how to open a window that disables that screen, a
PITA)

Mar 11 12:33:51 coyote kernel: [ 1394.369118] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000006
Mar 11 12:33:51 coyote kernel: [ 1394.369123] IP: [<c0464f3d>] get_page_from_freelist+0x26d/0x4e0
Mar 11 12:33:51 coyote kernel: [ 1394.369146] *pdpt = 000000002052a001 *pde = 0000000000000000
Mar 11 12:33:51 coyote kernel: [ 1394.369153] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
Mar 11 12:33:51 coyote kernel: [ 1394.369159] last sysfs file: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0f.0/0000:03:00.1/local_cpus
Mar 11 12:33:51 coyote kernel: [ 1394.369162] Modules linked in: fuse nls_utf8 cifs radeon drm eeprom nfsd rfcomm lockd nfs_acl
auth_rpcgss exportfs sco bnep l2cap autofs4 sunrpc ipv6 snd_emu10k1_synth or51132 snd_emux_synth snd_seq_virmidi
snd_seq_midi_emul cx88_dvb tuner_simple tuner_types snd_emu10k1 tda9887 tda8290 snd_rawmidi snd_ac97_codec ac97_bus tuner
snd_seq_dummy snd_seq_oss cx8800 snd_seq_midi_event cx8802 snd_seq cx88xx snd_pcm_oss ir_common snd_mixer_oss i2c_algo_bit
snd_pcm tveeprom videobuf_dvb videodev dvb_core snd_seq_device v4l1_compat snd_timer snd_page_alloc compat_ioctl32 snd_util_mem
v4l2_common btcx_risc snd_hwdep snd videobuf_dma_sg floppy forcedeth firewire_ohci usb_storage videobuf_core ftdi_sio
firewire_core sr_mod i2c_nforce2 cdrom usbserial sg usblp soundcore pcspkr i2c_core joydev btusb button crc_itu_t evdev
bluetooth ahci pata_jmicron pata_amd ata_generic pata_acpi sata_nv libata sd_mod scsi_mod ext3 jbd mbcache uhci_hcd ohci_hcd
ehci_hcd [last unloaded: scsi_wait_scan]
Mar 11 12:33:51 coyote kernel: [ 1394.369292]
Mar 11 12:33:51 coyote kernel: [ 1394.369295] Pid: 4410, comm: firefox-bin Not tainted (2.6.28.7 #6) System Product Name
Mar 11 12:33:51 coyote kernel: [ 1394.369298] EIP: 0060:[<c0464f3d>] EFLAGS: 00210246 CPU: 1
Mar 11 12:33:51 coyote kernel: [ 1394.369302] EIP is at get_page_from_freelist+0x26d/0x4e0
Mar 11 12:33:51 coyote kernel: [ 1394.369305] EAX: 00000000 EBX: 00000002 ECX: 80004000 EDX: 00000000
Mar 11 12:33:51 coyote kernel: [ 1394.369308] ESI: c28fc260 EDI: 00000100 EBP: c06f3c80 ESP: c45aed28
Mar 11 12:33:51 coyote kernel: [ 1394.369310] DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0033 SS: 0068
Mar 11 12:33:51 coyote kernel: [ 1394.369314] Process firefox-bin (pid: 4410, ti=c45ae000 task=c6c967f0 task.ti=c45ae000)
Mar 11 12:33:51 coyote kernel: [ 1394.369316] Stack:
Mar 11 12:33:51 coyote kernel: [ 1394.369318] 00000002 00000044 fffaa000 c0761fe0 00000002 00000000 00000000 001280d2
Mar 11 12:33:51 coyote kernel: [ 1394.369329] 00000002 00200246 00000001 c06f4100 00000000 00000000 c06f4c84 c06f3c80
Mar 11 12:33:51 coyote kernel: [ 1394.369341] c06f3c80 c06f3c80 c6c967f0 f5d5fe40 001280d2 c046534d c06f4c80 00000003
Mar 11 12:33:51 coyote kernel: [ 1394.369354] Call Trace:
Mar 11 12:33:51 coyote kernel: [ 1394.369357] [<c046534d>] __alloc_pages_internal+0xbd/0x470
Mar 11 12:33:51 coyote kernel: [ 1394.369362] [<c0470be5>] handle_mm_fault+0x465/0x870
Mar 11 12:33:51 coyote kernel: [ 1394.369367] [<c0417d46>] do_page_fault+0x156/0x830
Mar 11 12:33:51 coyote kernel: [ 1394.369372] [<c049ffa6>] mnt_drop_write+0x56/0x130
Mar 11 12:33:51 coyote kernel: [ 1394.369377] [<c0490d0b>] pipe_read+0x40b/0x410
Mar 11 12:33:51 coyote kernel: [ 1394.369382] [<c041d516>] update_curr+0x136/0x1a0
Mar 11 12:33:51 coyote kernel: [ 1394.369386] [<c043f7e7>] hrtimer_forward+0x147/0x1a0
Mar 11 12:33:51 coyote kernel: [ 1394.369391] [<c04093c6>] read_tsc+0x6/0x40
Mar 11 12:33:51 coyote kernel: [ 1394.369396] [<c0443aa1>] getnstimeofday+0x51/0x110
Mar 11 12:33:51 coyote kernel: [ 1394.369401] [<c0412c80>] lapic_next_event+0x10/0x20
Mar 11 12:33:51 coyote kernel: [ 1394.369406] [<c0446311>] clockevents_program_event+0xa1/0x160
Mar 11 12:33:51 coyote kernel: [ 1394.369410] [<c0447502>] tick_dev_program_event+0x32/0xb0
Mar 11 12:33:51 coyote kernel: [ 1394.369414] [<c04475fa>] tick_program_event+0x2a/0x40
Mar 11 12:33:51 coyote kernel: [ 1394.369419] [<c0440905>] hrtimer_interrupt+0x1a5/0x1e0
Mar 11 12:33:51 coyote kernel: [ 1394.369422] [<c0458cb4>] audit_syscall_exit+0x394/0x3d0
Mar 11 12:33:51 coyote kernel: [ 1394.369427] [<c042ccb8>] sys_gettimeofday+0x28/0x80
Mar 11 12:33:51 coyote kernel: [ 1394.369432] [<c0417bf0>] do_page_fault+0x0/0x830
Mar 11 12:33:51 coyote kernel: [ 1394.369436] [<c062a412>] error_code+0x72/0x78
Mar 11 12:33:51 coyote kernel: [ 1394.369442] Code: f6 40 08 08 0f 85 74 02 00 00 8b 0e 89 f3 8b 46 08 8b 56 10 f6 c5 40 74 03
8b 5e 0c 85 d2 0f 95 c2 83 c0 01 0f b6 d2 09 c2 31 c0 <83> 7b 04 00 0f 95 c0 09 c2 89 c8 25 f1 9c 3c 00 09 c2 0f 85 db
Mar 11 12:33:51 coyote kernel: [ 1394.369523] EIP: [<c0464f3d>] get_page_from_freelist+0x26d/0x4e0 SS:ESP 0068:c45aed28
Mar 11 12:33:51 coyote kernel: [ 1394.369531] ---[ end trace 5523db6be54b02cb ]---

is there something wrong in the kernels .config, or is this real?

Thank you.

--
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
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