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From: Chris Rankin <rankincj@yahoo.com>
To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] Linux 2.6.20.1 - unable to handle kernel paging request - accessing freed memory?
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 17:04:12 +0000 (GMT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <714641.9150.qm@web52907.mail.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84144f020702270642q4e371175y2a6c922e030e1f3b@mail.gmail.com>

--- Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> wrote:
> > Call Trace:
> >  [<c01839fe>] sysfs_release+0x2d/0x4c
> >  [<c015124b>] __fput+0x96/0x13c
> 
> So udevd is closing a sysfs attribute file but the pointer passed to
> module_put is bogus. Looks like the sysfs dentry was already taken
> down by release_sysfs_dirent(). Can you reproduce this at will? Does
> the oops happen in older kernels?

No, unfortunately I can't. Last night was the first time this ever happened (while I was starting
up World of Warcraft/Wine), so I have no idea which sysfs attribute it is talking about here.

Cheers,
Chris



		
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      reply	other threads:[~2007-02-27 17:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-26  1:26 [BUG] Linux 2.6.20.1 - unable to handle kernel paging request - accessing freed memory? Chris Rankin
2007-02-26 18:42 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-02-26 19:57   ` [Alsa-devel] " Takashi Iwai
2007-02-27 13:25     ` Chris Rankin
2007-02-27 14:48       ` Pekka Enberg
2007-03-01 11:28         ` Chris Rankin
2007-03-01 11:32           ` Pekka J Enberg
2007-03-01 13:22             ` Chris Rankin
2007-03-01 13:27             ` Chris Rankin
2007-03-07 23:29             ` Chris Rankin
2007-03-08  1:26             ` Chris Rankin
2007-02-26 20:08   ` Chris Rankin
2007-02-27 14:42 ` Pekka Enberg
2007-02-27 17:04   ` Chris Rankin [this message]

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