Re: 2.0.32 kernel oops

Petri Kutvonen (kutvonen@cs.Helsinki.FI)
Fri, 28 Nov 1997 14:21:32 +0200 (EET)


Hermann Lauer write:
>
> maybe this is a simple "don't do such things":
>
> While doing:
>
> rsh klimt cat /dev/kmem >/dev/null
>
> from another linux machine the following appeared in the syslog of klimt:
>
> Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address c4805000
> current->tss.cr3 = 03c0c000, `r3 = 03c0c000
...

I can confirm this. The oops can be reproduced deterministically with
2.0.32. And it seems not to be dependent on the network card/driver,
besides EtherExpress Pro 10/100 also machines with 3c509 or 3c905
seem to fail similarly.

Petri Kutvonen University of Helsinki kutvonen@cs.Helsinki.FI
Department of Computer Science +358 9 708 44216