From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757943Ab2CPVEw (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Mar 2012 17:04:52 -0400 Received: from science.horizon.com ([71.41.210.146]:24073 "HELO science.horizon.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1757840Ab2CPVEs (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Mar 2012 17:04:48 -0400 Date: 16 Mar 2012 17:04:46 -0400 Message-ID: <20120316210446.2198.qmail@science.horizon.com> From: "George Spelvin" To: jkosina@suse.cz, linux@horizon.com Subject: Re: Oops in ext3_block_to_path.isra.40+0x26/0x11b Cc: jack@suse.cz, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > So it might be the culprit. As the reason of the corruption is not yet > understood, it might be that suspend/resume cycle is not necessary > pre-requisite for this to trigger, it might just make it more likely. It might just be virtual console switching. Normally I live in X, but I might have switched to a text console for some reason (I don't specifically remember doing this, but it's very plausible for me). > And the corruption is observed to be indeed several writes of 0x00000000, > so it could easily lead to null pointer dereferences all over the place. > > Are you able to reproduce the problem if you turn kernel modesetting off? Unfortunately, this is the only time it's happened to me with kernel modesetting *on*. Would repeated checksums of a kernel tree be a good way to detect random memory stomping?