From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755810Ab0KVTBZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Nov 2010 14:01:25 -0500 Received: from mail-px0-f174.google.com ([209.85.212.174]:56620 "EHLO mail-px0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754602Ab0KVTBY (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Nov 2010 14:01:24 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=N/Hi1Fql4wUpwqGYNyyWxBWT7KufWdHMYuF6c7A+Z5EjRTQjEWUhPqRNFirMO+Jxt8 fQxov5QxfEIbRcBgLeUDjye+Ymbsgfk2UmrQbaWKDGfC04Vi4bX6bxIyKHTcpi3mufMD KkdIxQh621YkIyuwgC3YnOfMBMIdtH/W2HSP4= Message-ID: <4CEABDFD.9080908@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 11:01:17 -0800 From: "Justin P. Mattock" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Thunderbird/3.1.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jesper Juhl CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org <---- cut --------> cleaned the thread up.. Anyways after doing some debugging with gdb and with valgrind for an application that keeps segfaulting I noticed this in dmesg: [ 3028.571941] FIREWALL:INPUT IN=wlan0 OUT= MAC=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:23:12:65:cb:02:08:00 SRC=0.0.0.0 DST=255.255.255.255 LEN=328 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=255 ID=57984 PROTO=UDP SPT=68 DPT=67 LEN=308 [ 3061.177655] BUG: Bad page state in process make pfn:2134c [ 3061.177661] page:ffffea00007438a0 count:0 mapcount:0 mapping: (null) index:0x507 [ 3061.177663] page flags: 0x4000000000000008(uptodate) [ 3061.177669] Pid: 5691, comm: make Not tainted 2.6.37-rc2-00039-g0211924 #7 [ 3061.177671] Call Trace: [ 3061.177680] [] ? dump_page+0xc0/0xc5 [ 3061.177684] [] bad_page+0xd8/0xea [ 3061.177688] [] get_page_from_freelist+0x344/0x4a0 [ 3061.177693] [] ? inode_has_perm+0x68/0x6a [ 3061.177697] [] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x124/0x645 [ 3061.177701] [] ? __dentry_open+0x194/0x2a1 [ 3061.177705] [] handle_mm_fault+0x2a8/0x82f [ 3061.177710] [] ? do_filp_open+0x1f3/0x646 [ 3061.177714] [] ? check_object+0x13b/0x1eb [ 3061.177719] [] do_page_fault+0x3ec/0x411 [ 3061.177722] [] ? free_debug_processing+0x1c5/0x208 [ 3061.177726] [] ? getname+0x2c/0x1be [ 3061.177728] [] ? __slab_free+0x130/0x145 [ 3061.177732] [] page_fault+0x25/0x30 [ 3061.177734] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint [ 3126.418774] type=1400 audit(1290451825.417:178): avc: denied from what I remember using valgirnd with the app took a while to load but am unsure if is the reason for the above message. Justin P. Mattock