From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263284AbUCNEe0 (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Mar 2004 23:34:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263285AbUCNEe0 (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Mar 2004 23:34:26 -0500 Received: from holomorphy.com ([207.189.100.168]:14604 "EHLO holomorphy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263100AbUCNEeY (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Mar 2004 23:34:24 -0500 Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 20:34:20 -0800 From: William Lee Irwin III To: James Bottomley Cc: SCSI Mailing List , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: 2.6.3-mm4 scsi_delete_timer() oops Message-ID: <20040314043420.GL655@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , James Bottomley , SCSI Mailing List , Linux Kernel References: <20040314041047.GK655@holomorphy.com> <1079238471.1759.74.camel@mulgrave> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1079238471.1759.74.camel@mulgrave> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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: [] scsi_delete_timer+0x16/0x30 >> Mar 13 19:41:59 holomorphy kernel: [] 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