From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964835AbVHIP4s (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Aug 2005 11:56:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964839AbVHIP4r (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Aug 2005 11:56:47 -0400 Received: from mailgw.cvut.cz ([147.32.3.235]:33666 "EHLO mailgw.cvut.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964835AbVHIP4q (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Aug 2005 11:56:46 -0400 Message-ID: <42F8D23D.3000505@vc.cvut.cz> Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 17:56:45 +0200 From: Petr Vandrovec User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050513 Debian/1.7.8-1 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Grzegorz Piotr Jaskiewicz CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: oops in VMWARE vmnet, on 2.6.12.x References: <200508091744.33523@gj-laptop> In-Reply-To: <200508091744.33523@gj-laptop> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Grzegorz Piotr Jaskiewicz wrote: > I know that in general no one here is interested in vmware affairs, but in > hope that VMware folks are reading this list too, here's the oops: > It's the newest vmware5 for linux from vmware.com You must update vmnet with vmware-any-any-update93 patch (http://platan.vc.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/vmware). sk_alloc() function changed type of its arguments, and unfortunately this causes only compile-time warning, which you did not notice, but resulting module crashes kernel as now mandatory argument is passed in as '0'. You should report problems related to the VMware at the VMware community forums, http://www.vmware.com/community/index.jspa. Most of peoples on LKML does not care about these opensource modules. Petr Vandrovec