Re: [BUG] unable to handle kernel paging request in next-20080516 (scsi_bus_uevent)

Sitsofe Wheeler
2008-05-18T11:22:06Z

On Sun, 18 May 2008 02:14:23 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

> (cc's added)
>
> On Sat, 17 May 2008 12:50:24 +0000 (UTC) Sitsofe Wheeler
>
>> Sometimes when booting next-20080516 on Ubuntu Gutsy an oops then a
>> panic will occur. At first I thought it might be provoked by vga=0x164
>> but this does not appear to be the case and the issue is seemingly
>> random. I've hand transcribed the oops so there may be errors in it but
>> hopefully it will still help:
>>
>> BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at e6f17fac IP:
>> [<c02604d6>] scsi_bus_uevent+0x1/0x17 *pde = 2714b163 *pte = 26f17160
>> Oops: 0000 [#1] DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
>> last sysfs file:
>>
> I thought we'd already fixed this?

Thanks to your tip off I've found that this bug is already in bugzilla
(complete with the commit that caused the regression) - http://
bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10711 . There's nothing there that
says it has been fixed though. I'll look harder before reporting problems
next time.