Re: sysfs crashes while recursively checking file permissions

From: Greg KH
Date: Fri Nov 16 2012 - 08:16:28 EST


On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 01:20:12PM +0530, Chintan Pandya wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am running one test on my ARM system which checks the sysfs file
> system's whole directory recursively and checks its file permission.
> While I perform this test, I face random (as in varies the nature of
> crash sometimes) crashes like one mentioned below.
>
>
> <1>[ 67.442660] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual
> address efd3d794
>
> <1>[ 67.448840] pgd = da364000
>
> <1>[ 67.451529] [efd3d794] *pgd=00000000
>
> <0>[ 67.455092] Internal error: Oops: 5 [#1] PREEMPT SMP ARM
>
> <4>[ 67.460385] Modules linked in:
>
> <4>[ 67.463424] CPU: 1 Not tainted
> (3.4.0-perf-g45c04fe-00006-g8a5c5e2 #27)

Can you try a newer kernel version? Like 3.7-rc5? 3.6.6?

thanks,

greg k-h
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/