Re: Debugging General Protection Faultʼs

[Jiri Kosina]

On Tue, 18 Aug 2015, Muni Sekhar wrote:

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> Hello,
> 
> I have a doubt regarding debugging general protection faultâs.
> I am running the driver tests on Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU.
> During the tests I see system hangs after continuous occurrence of
> general protection faultâs.
> 
> First fault occurred on CPU: 0 , but it is not related to our driver,

There is no evidence that this is not caused by your driver. It's #GP in 
__kmalloc(), which might very well be caused by use after free in your 
driver, corrupting slab metadata or so.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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