Re: 2.6.3-mm4 scsi_delete_timer() oops

William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-14T04:34:24Z

On Sat, 2004-03-13 at 23:10, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> Mar 13 19:41:59 holomorphy kernel: EIP: 0060:[<00000000>] Not tainted VLI
> [...]
>> Mar 13 19:41:59 holomorphy kernel: [<c0358076>] scsi_delete_timer+0x16/0x30
>> Mar 13 19:41:59 holomorphy kernel: [<c0373de9>] ahc_linux_run_complete_queue+0x69/0xd0

On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 11:27:50PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> This trace doesn't make sense to me. A null EIP usually indicates
> jumping through a NULL function pointer. There are no fptr derefs in
> scsi_delete_timer. Also ahc_linux_run_complete_queue doesn't call
> scsi_delete_timer.
> Could you try to reproduce and get a more meaningful backtrace?

I'm pretty stumped as to what's going on with this. The stack is
moderately deep. It's also possible a fair fraction of the stuff is
garbage off the end of the stack and the real leaf routine is buried.

-- wli