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From: Nikola Ciprich <nikola.ciprich@linuxbox.cz>
To: Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@online.de>
Cc: linux-kernel mlist <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-stable mlist <stable@kernel.org>,
	Nikola Ciprich <nikola.ciprich@linuxbox.cz>
Subject: Re: 3.0.60: general protection fault: 0000, Fixing recursive fault but reboot is needed
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 12:05:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130415100512.GS28496@pcnci.linuxbox.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1366014586.4962.17.camel@marge.simpson.net>

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Hi Mike,

> Feeding that to scripts/decodecode
thanks, didn't know about that!

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.
.
.
> 
> That's here in dup_fd():
>         for (i = open_files; i != 0; i--) {
>                 struct file *f = *old_fds++;
>                 if (f) {
>                         get_file(f);
> 
> It's doing that get_file(), grabbing a reference to all open files in a
> loop, but old_fds points off into lala land, so I'd say you must have
> memory corruption, and open_files is garbage.  Seeing "One of our
> servers..", operative word being "one", I'd tend to suspect heat or such
> given the box exploded in this extremely heavily exercised spot.

yes, that could be. I'll have this box checked, including memtest etc.

thanks a lot for Your time!

nik


> 
> -Mike
> 

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      reply	other threads:[~2013-04-15 10:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-15  5:33 3.0.60: general protection fault: 0000, Fixing recursive fault but reboot is needed Nikola Ciprich
2013-04-15  8:29 ` Mike Galbraith
2013-04-15 10:05   ` Nikola Ciprich [this message]

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