From: mru@kth.se (Måns Rullgård)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: vmware on linux 2.6.4
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 00:39:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yw1xu10ogy4m.fsf@kth.se> (raw)
I tried to build the vmware modules for kernel 2.6.4 and got this oops
when loading vmmon.o:
vmmon: no version magic, tainting kernel.
vmmon: module license 'unspecified' taints kernel.
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000006e
printing eip:
c020160f
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000 [#1]
PREEMPT
CPU: 0
EIP: 0060:[<c020160f>] Tainted: PF
EFLAGS: 00010206
EIP is at vsnprintf+0x43/0x4b9
eax: c6f11c53 ebx: c6f11c00 ecx: 0000006e edx: 0000006e
esi: c6f11c54 edi: c6f11c0c ebp: c6f11c67 esp: d2b61ee8
ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068
Process insmod (pid: 23426, threadinfo=d2b60000 task=d0f52720)
Stack: e89fe000 c0101e8c 00000202 c01468d5 00000202 c0338394 00000286 d2b61f38
00000014 c6f11c54 0000006e c6f11c00 fffffff4 c6f11c0c c162d180 c023c3e9
d2b61f54 00000000 6f6d6d76 e8a2dd90 6fed6d76 c036ae08 c022fb77 c162d180
Call Trace:
[<c01468d5>] unmap_vm_area+0x27/0x67
[<c023c3e9>] class_simple_device_add+0xa9/0xff
[<c022fb77>] misc_register+0xb2/0x186
[<e8a1a1d0>] init_module+0x144/0x1e8 [vmmon]
[<c013126e>] sys_init_module+0x105/0x211
[<c0108ffd>] sysenter_past_esp+0x52/0x71
Code: 80 3a 00 74 25 0f b6 02 3c 25 74 41 39 ee 77 06 88 06 8b 54
<4>vmmon: no version magic, tainting kernel.
Suggestions welcome.
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Måns Rullgård
mru@kth.se
next reply other threads:[~2004-03-16 23:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-16 23:39 Måns Rullgård [this message]
2004-03-17 10:19 ` vmware on linux 2.6.4 Marc-Christian Petersen
2004-03-17 10:30 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-03-17 16:19 ` Mark Watts
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2004-03-17 15:48 Petr Vandrovec
2004-03-17 16:43 ` Mark Watts
2004-03-17 16:08 Petr Vandrovec
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