Re: 2.4.23 hard lock, 100% reproducible.

William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-07T06:55:59Z

On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 10:50:17PM -0800, Alex Davis wrote:
> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer
> dereference at virtual address: 00000000
> printing eip:
> c02363dd
> *pde=00000000
> Oops: 0000
> CPU: 0
> EIP: 0010:[<c02363d>] Not tainted
> EFLAGS: 00010217
> eax: 00000006 ebx: 00000000 ecx: 7a01a8c0 ecx: c700b2a0
> esi: c0299ce0 edi: 000001b7 ebp: c0299d94 esp: c0299c54
> ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
> process: swapper (pid: 0, stackpage = c0299000)
> Other than that, nothing. Is there a patch out there
> that will simply make 2.4.22 secure? Things run great
> on that kernel.

Compile your kernel with debug symbols and use addr2line on that EIP.

-- wli