From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org,
Fedora Kernel Team <kernel-team@fedoraproject.org>
Subject: Re: 3.5.1 fib_rules_lookup oops
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 13:22:40 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120820172240.GA378@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1345481979.5158.333.camel@edumazet-glaptop>
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 06:59:39PM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-08-20 at 12:44 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> > Just had a user report this, which I don't think I've seen reported here yet.
> > Something new, or just something missing from -stable ?
> >
> > Dave
> >
> >
> > BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 5f726571
> > IP: [<c0884808>] fib_rules_lookup+0x38/0x130
> > *pdpt = 000000002b8ef001 *pde = 0000000000000000
> > Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
>
> It looks like a buffer overflow or memory reuse
>
> 5f726565 is not a valid pointer, but ASCII "eer_"
Yeah.
Same user reported a slew of other problems, so he may have bad hardware.
I've asked him to run a memtest to rule that out.
Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-20 17:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-20 16:44 3.5.1 fib_rules_lookup oops Dave Jones
2012-08-20 16:59 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-08-20 17:22 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2012-08-20 20:35 ` Andi Kleen
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