From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932392AbWFLVpO (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jun 2006 17:45:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932330AbWFLVpO (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jun 2006 17:45:14 -0400 Received: from ns1.bluetone.cz ([212.158.128.13]:54733 "EHLO mail.bluetone.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932392AbWFLVpM (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jun 2006 17:45:12 -0400 Message-ID: <448DE077.1040900@scssoft.com> Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 23:45:27 +0200 From: Petr Sebor Organization: SCS Software User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (X11/20060517) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: PROBLEM: 2.6.16.20 kernel oops Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jun 12 18:53:42 server kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000008 Jun 12 18:53:42 server kernel: printing eip: Jun 12 18:53:42 server kernel: c0237744 Jun 12 18:53:42 server kernel: *pde = 00000000 Jun 12 18:53:42 server kernel: Oops: 0002 [#1] Jun 12 18:53:42 server kernel: Modules linked in: tun Jun 12 18:53:42 server kernel: CPU: 0 Jun 12 18:53:42 server kernel: EIP: 0060:[] Not tainted VLI Jun 12 18:53:42 server kernel: EFLAGS: 00210246 (2.6.16.20 #1) Jun 12 18:53:42 server kernel: EIP is at udp_recvmsg+0x97/0x1cc Jun 12 18:53:42 server kernel: eax: 00000008 ebx: df6fcaa0 ecx: dd38df64 edx: dfb13794 Jun 12 18:53:42 server kernel: esi: dd38df48 edi: 0000067d ebp: dfb13740 esp: dd38dd98 Jun 12 18:53:42 server kernel: ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Jun 12 18:53:42 server kernel: Process tincd (pid: 1127, threadinfo=dd38c000 task=c14d0050) Jun 12 18:53:42 server kernel: Stack: <0>0000005c dd38dec8 0000005c 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000040 c02db000 Jun 12 18:53:42 server kernel: dd38df48 dd38ddf0 c0208bfd 0000067d 00000040 00000000 dd38ddd4 00000010 Jun 12 18:53:42 server kernel: c0291080 00000040 dd38df48 c02071f6 0000067d 00000040 c0207751 0000005c Jun 12 18:53:42 server kernel: Call Trace: Jun 12 18:53:42 server kernel: [] sock_common_recvmsg+0x2d/0x43 Jun 12 18:53:42 server kernel: [] sock_recvmsg+0xc9/0xe4 Jun 12 18:53:42 server kernel: [] sock_sendmsg+0xb9/0xd2 Jun 12 18:53:42 server kernel: [] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2d Jun 12 18:53:42 server kernel: [] __alloc_pages+0x4e/0x27e Jun 12 18:53:42 server kernel: [] datagram_poll+0x22/0xb9 Jun 12 18:53:42 server kernel: [] sys_recvfrom+0xb5/0x111 Jun 12 18:53:42 server kernel: [] __pollwait+0x0/0x94 Jun 12 18:53:42 server kernel: [] core_sys_select+0x217/0x223 Jun 12 18:53:42 server kernel: [] sys_socketcall+0x11a/0x181 Jun 12 18:53:42 server kernel: [] syscall_call+0x7/0xb Jun 12 18:53:42 server kernel: Code: 20 89 7c 24 04 8a 43 74 83 e0 0c 3c 08 74 15 f6 46 18 20 74 29 89 d8 e8 39 4e fd ff 85 c0 0f 85 0f 01 00 00 8b 4e 08 ff 74 24 04 08 00 00 0 0 89 d8 e8 20 52 fd ff 89 44 24 14 58 eb 1c 8b 4e ... and probably related oops which I have reported earlier: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=114958556818554&w=2 The process which caused the crash is tincd (a virtual private network daemon) which uses tun device to communicate with the peer over udp, tunneling both ipv4 and ipv6 traffic. When the oops happens, the networking layer goes nuts; the machine itself continues to operate, yet I can't send and receive a simple bit. The machine is effectively dead from the outside. I realize these bug reports are probably worthles as there is not much of clues to follow... Does it ring some bells? Petr