Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference .....

Martin Konold (konold@fiwi02.wiwi.uni-tuebingen.de)
Tue, 3 Feb 1998 17:23:41 +0100 (CET)


Hi Linus, Alan et al.,

I just got this crash on a _very_ heavily loaded server (mainly network
related load). Do you need my System.map in addition?

# cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.0.33 (root@fiwi02) (gcc version 2.7.2.1) #1 Tue Jan 20
17:53:39 CET 1998
# free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 63484 62460 1024 51344 4036
-/+ buffers: 58424 4191292
Swap: 32756 0 32756 22816

# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
cpu : 486
model : DX/2
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
stepping : 5
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid : yes
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme
bogomips : 33.18
# cat /proc/ioports
0000-001f : dma1
0020-003f : pic1
0040-005f : timer
0060-006f : keyboard
0080-009f : dma page reg
00a0-00bf : pic2
00c0-00df : dma2
00f0-00ff : npu
01f0-01f7 : ide0
0280-029f : NE2000
03c0-03df : vga+
03f6-03f6 : ide0

Feb 3 10:39:46 fiwi02 kernel: EXT2-fs error (device 03:03):
ext2_new_block: Free blocks count corrupted for block group 179
Feb 3 10:40:00 fiwi02 kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer
dereference at virtual address c0000008
Feb 3 10:40:00 fiwi02 kernel: current->tss.cr3 = 03a08000, ^_r3 = 03a08000
Feb 3 10:40:00 fiwi02 kernel: *pde = 00102067
Feb 3 10:40:00 fiwi02 kernel: *pte = 00000000
Feb 3 10:40:00 fiwi02 kernel: Oops: 0000
Feb 3 10:40:00 fiwi02 kernel: CPU: 0
Feb 3 10:40:00 fiwi02 kernel: EIP: 0010:[memcpy_toiovec+82/144]
Feb 3 10:40:00 fiwi02 kernel: EFLAGS: 00010216
Feb 3 10:40:00 fiwi02 kernel: eax: 00000200 ebx: 00000194 ecx:
00000065 edx: bfffb3ac
Feb 3 10:40:00 fiwi02 kernel: esi: 00000008 edi: bfffb3ac ebp:
00f3aedc esp: 00f3ae28
Feb 3 10:40:00 fiwi02 kernel: ds: 0018 es: 002b fs: 002b gs: 002b
ss: 0018
Feb 3 10:40:00 fiwi02 kernel: Process smtp (pid: 10089, process nr: 64,
stackpage=00f3a000)
Feb 3 10:40:00 fiwi02 kernel: Stack: 00150018 00000194 00f3aee4 01770414
00f3af64 00000194 0013afdb 00f3aedc
Feb 3 10:40:00 fiwi02 kernel: 00000008 00000194 0014e3b1 03b791e8
00000008 00f3aedc 00000194 01770414
Feb 3 10:40:00 fiwi02 kernel: 00f3aed8 00000000 00000000 03b791e8
0012f546 00152ad6 01770414 00f3af64
Feb 3 10:40:00 fiwi02 kernel: Call Trace: [arp_rcv+152/768]
[skb_copy_datagram_iovec+27/32] [udp_recvmsg+113/192] [do_select+438/496]
[inet_recvmsg+118/144] [sys_recvfrom+327/400] [udp_sendmsg+52/224]
Feb 3 10:40:00 fiwi02 kernel: [sys_send+245/272]
[sys_socketcall+643/848] [system_call+85/128]
Feb 3 10:40:00 fiwi02 kernel: Code: f3 a5 83 e3 03 89 d9 f3 a4 07 8b 5c
24 10 01 5c 24 1c 29 5c
Feb 3 10:40:00 fiwi02 kernel: EXT2-fs error (device 03:03):
ext2_new_block: Free blocks count corrupted for block group 179

Greetings,
-- martin

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