Re: 2.6.6-mm1 Oops with dummy network device (sysfs related?)

[Valdis . Kletnieks]

On Mon, 10 May 2004 16:59:54 EDT, Richard A Nelson <cowboy@xxxxxxxxxx>  said:
> : divert: allocating divert_blk for dummy0
> : Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000
0
> :  printing eip:
> : c016dcad
> : *pde = 00000000
> :        ___      ______
> :       0--,|    /OOOOOO\
> :      {_o  /  /OO plop OO\
> :        \__\_/OO oh dear OOO\s
> :           \OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO/
> :            __XXX__   __XXX__
> : Oops: 0000 [#1]
> : PREEMPT
> : CPU:    0
> : EIP:    0060:[d_move+109/576]    Not tainted VLI
> : EFLAGS: 00210246   (2.6.6-mm1)
> : EIP is at d_move+0x6d/0x240
> : eax: 00000000   ebx: c25549a4   ecx: c2554a0c   edx: 00000000
> : esi: c313d908   edi: c155f928   ebp: c496aebc   esp: c496aea8
> : ds: 007b   es: 007b   ss: 0068
> : Process ip (pid: 5604, threadinfo=c496a000 task=c7cc54c0)
> : Stack: 00000006 c0149c27 c480cca0 c313d908 c155f928 c496aedc c018e251 00200
286
> :        c496af44 c480ce50 c480ce50 c480cca0 c50d5113 c496aeec c01d18b1 c480c
e48
> :        c480cca0 c496aefc c0231ca8 c480cca0 c480cdcc c496af24 c028f56b c496a
f24
> : Call Trace:
> :  [show_stack+122/144] show_stack+0x7a/0x90
> :  [show_registers+324/432] show_registers+0x144/0x1b0
> :  [die+153/272] die+0x99/0x110
> :  [do_page_fault+485/1327] do_page_fault+0x1e5/0x52f
> :  [error_code+45/56] error_code+0x2d/0x38
> :  [sysfs_rename_dir+193/224] sysfs_rename_dir+0xc1/0xe0
> :  [kobject_rename+33/64] kobject_rename+0x21/0x40
> :  [class_device_rename+56/80] class_device_rename+0x38/0x50
> :  [dev_change_name+315/448] dev_change_name+0x13b/0x1c0
> :  [dev_ioctl+339/704] dev_ioctl+0x153/0x2c0
> :  [inet_ioctl+154/176] inet_ioctl+0x9a/0xb0
> :  [sock_ioctl+239/656] sock_ioctl+0xef/0x290
> :  [sys_ioctl+261/608] sys_ioctl+0x105/0x260
> :  [sysenter_past_esp+82/113] sysenter_past_esp+0x52/0x71

Am seeing this as  well, while running 'nameif' to rename real Ethernet interfaces.

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