From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757038AbXJ2Hmy (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Oct 2007 03:42:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752149AbXJ2Hmr (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Oct 2007 03:42:47 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:55604 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751918AbXJ2Hmq (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Oct 2007 03:42:46 -0400 Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 00:42:42 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: "Daniel Cid" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [BUG] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference Message-Id: <20071029004242.cbf528d0.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <44003d360710221017k58ce3c2cqb2feff2939b65dae@mail.gmail.com> References: <44003d360710221017k58ce3c2cqb2feff2939b65dae@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.1 (GTK+ 2.8.17; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 14:17:14 -0300 "Daniel Cid" wrote: > Sorry if it isn't the right place to ask this question, but I was > reported the following error in the kernel. > > Syscheckd (process in the crash) is a userland (no kernel/lkm code) > file integrity checking tool that scans the system and generates the > md5/sha1 sum of all the files (if it helps to identify the problem). > > I am guessing it is a bug in the kernel, since no user process should > cause this... > > > [root@ss ossec]# uname -a > Linux ss 2.6.9-55.0.9.ELsmp #1 SMP Thu Sep 27 18:27:41 EDT 2007 i686 i686 > i386 GNU/Linux > Sorry, we all stopped thinking about 2.6.9 years ago - unless you're able to reproduce this on a current kernel (for example, latest Fedora), the place to report this is https://bugzilla.redhat.com/ Thanks.