Does this crash have anything to do with the preemption instability? Nov 28 20:36:35 akalabeth invalid operand: 0000 [#1] Nov 28 20:36:35 akalabeth PREEMPT Nov 28 20:36:35 akalabeth CPU: 0 Nov 28 20:36:35 akalabeth EIP: 0060:[] Not tainted VLI Nov 28 20:36:35 akalabeth EFLAGS: 00210246 Nov 28 20:36:35 akalabeth EIP is at __copy_from_user_ll+0x16/0x58 Nov 28 20:36:35 akalabeth eax: 00000000 ebx: 00000008 ecx: 00000008 edx: 08af63c0 Nov 28 20:36:35 akalabeth esi: 08af63b8 edi: f7ffffff ebp: ec2ed608 esp: df827f78 Nov 28 20:36:35 akalabeth ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Nov 28 20:36:35 akalabeth Process MozillaFirebird (pid: 6465, threadinfo=df826000 task=e176c6e0) Nov 28 20:36:35 akalabeth Stack: ec2ed600 08af63b8 c0156cdd ec2ed608 08af63b8 00000008 ec2ed600 ec2ed600 Nov 28 20:36:35 akalabeth 00000001 fffffff4 c01561f7 00000000 00000000 3fc7b1d3 08af63b8 00000000 Nov 28 20:36:35 akalabeth 4ac06938 df826000 c025e57a 08af63b8 00000001 00000000 00000000 4ac06938 Nov 28 20:36:35 akalabeth Call Trace: Nov 28 20:36:35 akalabeth [] sys_poll+0x158/0x257 Nov 28 20:36:35 akalabeth [] __pollwait+0x0/0x9a Nov 28 20:36:35 akalabeth [] sysenter_past_esp+0x43/0x65 Nov 28 20:36:35 akalabeth Nov 28 20:36:35 akalabeth Code: a4 eb 0d 51 56 57 e8 7c fe ff ff 89 c1 83 c4 0c 5e 89 c8 5f c3 57 56 8b 4c 24 14 8b 7c 24 25 8b 74 24 10 83 f9 3f 25 0e 89 f8 31 23 05 29 5c 32 c0 85 c0 75 23 25 c8 83 f9 07 76 18 89 2d f7 Nov 28 20:36:35 akalabeth invalid operand: 0000 [#2] Nov 28 20:36:35 akalabeth PREEMPT Nov 28 20:36:35 akalabeth CPU: 0 Nov 28 20:36:35 akalabeth EIP: 0060:[] Not tainted VLI Nov 28 20:36:35 akalabeth EFLAGS: 00010246 Nov 28 20:36:35 akalabeth EIP is at __copy_from_user_ll+0x16/0x58 Nov 28 20:36:35 akalabeth eax: 00000000 ebx: 00000008 ecx: 00000008 edx: 080a4dc8 Nov 28 20:36:35 akalabeth esi: 080a4dc0 edi: 20efc221 ebp: df4e62c0 esp: e6ad1de4 Nov 28 20:36:35 akalabeth ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Nov 28 20:36:35 akalabeth Process gnome-terminal (pid: 5239, threadinfo=e6ad0000 task=ebd999a0) Nov 28 20:36:35 akalabeth Stack: e6ad1f4c 00000000 c021c158 df4e62c0 080a4dc0 00000008 00000008 efc22140 Nov 28 20:36:35 akalabeth df4e62c0 efc22180 e45c7e20 c0259ce8 df4e62c0 e6ad1f4c 00000008 00000008 Nov 28 20:36:35 akalabeth 00000000 e45c7cc0 e6ad1f10 ffffff95 00001477 000003e8 00000064 00000000 Nov 28 20:36:35 akalabeth Call Trace: Nov 28 20:36:35 akalabeth [] memcpy_fromiovec+0x52/0x98 Nov 28 20:36:35 akalabeth [] unix_stream_sendmsg+0x1f4/0x38e Nov 28 20:36:35 akalabeth [] update_process_times+0x29/0x2f Nov 28 20:36:35 akalabeth [] sock_aio_write+0xb1/0xbd Nov 28 20:36:35 akalabeth [] do_sync_write+0xa4/0xd2 Nov 28 20:36:35 akalabeth [] __alloc_pages+0x93/0x2b2 Nov 28 20:36:35 akalabeth [] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x36 Nov 28 20:36:35 akalabeth [] pty_write_room+0x22/0x24 Nov 28 20:36:35 akalabeth [] normal_poll+0x10b/0x11f Nov 28 20:36:35 akalabeth [] tty_poll+0x69/0x70 Nov 28 20:36:35 akalabeth [] vfs_write+0xa4/0xc0 Nov 28 20:36:35 akalabeth [] sys_write+0x2b/0x43 Nov 28 20:36:35 akalabeth [] sysenter_past_esp+0x43/0x65 Nov 28 20:36:35 akalabeth Nov 28 20:36:35 akalabeth Code: a4 eb 0d 51 56 57 e8 7c fe ff ff 89 c1 83 c4 0c 5e 89 c8 5f c3 57 56 8b 4c 24 14 8b 7c 24 25 8b 74 24 10 83 f9 3f 25 0e 89 f8 31 23 05 29 5c 32 c0 85 c0 75 23 25 c8 83 f9 07 76 18 89 2d f7 -- Jonathan Brown http://emergence.uk.net/