I reported this previously and it was verified. Is this a bug in netlink or what? Who should I report this to? Original Oops report: http://mailman.ds9a.nl/pipermail/lartc/2004q2/012614.html Thanks. Linux rebecca 2.6.4 #1 Mon Sep 27 15:16:48 EDT 2004 i686 GNU/Linux Sep 27 19:02:58 rebecca kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000 Sep 27 19:02:58 rebecca kernel: printing eip: Sep 27 19:02:58 rebecca kernel: 00000000 Sep 27 19:02:58 rebecca kernel: *pde = 00000000 Sep 27 19:02:58 rebecca kernel: Oops: 0000 [#1] Sep 27 19:02:58 rebecca kernel: CPU: 0 Sep 27 19:02:58 rebecca kernel: EIP: 0060:[<00000000>] Not tainted Sep 27 19:02:58 rebecca kernel: EFLAGS: 00010246 Sep 27 19:02:58 rebecca kernel: EIP is at 0x0 Sep 27 19:02:58 rebecca kernel: eax: 00000000 ebx: c61e00c0 ecx: 00000002 edx: c8949760 Sep 27 19:02:58 rebecca kernel: esi: 00000645 edi: c66139a0 ebp: c62c4290 esp: c6133b6c Sep 27 19:02:58 rebecca kernel: ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Sep 27 19:02:58 rebecca kernel: Process tc (pid: 1605, threadinfo=c6132000 task=c6b186e0) Sep 27 19:02:58 rebecca kernel: Stack: c022c644 c42303a0 00000000 c6d5b8a0 00000001 c0143330 c6d5b8a0 c6b31da0 Sep 27 19:02:58 rebecca kernel: 40016c70 c8949760 00000000 c42303a0 c42ce400 c61e00c0 00000f60 c0218cf7 Sep 27 19:02:58 rebecca kernel: 00001000 000000d0 c40de2e0 00000645 c40de2e0 c40de2e0 c61e00c0 00000645 Sep 27 19:02:58 rebecca kernel: Call Trace: Sep 27 19:02:58 rebecca kernel: [tc_dump_tfilter+180/608] tc_dump_tfilter+0xb4/0x260 Sep 27 19:02:58 rebecca kernel: [handle_mm_fault+224/336] handle_mm_fault+0xe0/0x150 Sep 27 19:02:58 rebecca kernel: [alloc_skb+71/240] alloc_skb+0x47/0xf0 Sep 27 19:02:58 rebecca kernel: [netlink_dump+89/464] netlink_dump+0x59/0x1d0 Sep 27 19:02:58 rebecca kernel: [netlink_dump_start+167/240] netlink_dump_start+0xa7/0xf0 Sep 27 19:02:58 rebecca kernel: [rtnetlink_rcv+911/976] rtnetlink_rcv+0x38f/0x3d0 Sep 27 19:02:58 rebecca kernel: [tc_dump_tfilter+0/608] tc_dump_tfilter+0x0/0x260 Sep 27 19:02:58 rebecca kernel: [rtnetlink_done+0/16] rtnetlink_done+0x0/0x10 Sep 27 19:02:58 rebecca kernel: [netlink_dump_start+167/240] netlink_dump_start+0xa7/0xf0 Sep 27 19:02:58 rebecca kernel: [rtnetlink_rcv+439/976] rtnetlink_rcv+0x1b7/0x3d0 Sep 27 19:02:58 rebecca kernel: [rtnetlink_rcv+0/976] rtnetlink_rcv+0x0/0x3d0 Sep 27 19:02:58 rebecca kernel: [default_wake_function+0/32] default_wake_function+0x0/0x20 Sep 27 19:02:58 rebecca kernel: [netlink_data_ready+90/112] netlink_data_ready+0x5a/0x70 Sep 27 19:02:58 rebecca kernel: [netlink_unicast+620/784] netlink_unicast+0x26c/0x310 Sep 27 19:02:58 rebecca kernel: [default_wake_function+0/32] default_wake_function+0x0/0x20 Sep 27 19:02:58 rebecca kernel: [default_wake_function+0/32] default_wake_function+0x0/0x20 Sep 27 19:02:58 rebecca kernel: [alloc_skb+71/240] alloc_skb+0x47/0xf0 Sep 27 19:02:58 rebecca kernel: [netlink_sendmsg+530/784] netlink_sendmsg+0x212/0x310 Sep 27 19:02:58 rebecca kernel: [netlink_recvmsg+434/544] netlink_recvmsg+0x1b2/0x220 Sep 27 19:02:58 rebecca kernel: [sock_sendmsg+152/208] sock_sendmsg+0x98/0xd0 Sep 27 19:02:58 rebecca kernel: [sock_recvmsg+150/192] sock_recvmsg+0x96/0xc0 Sep 27 19:02:58 rebecca kernel: [move_addr_to_kernel+86/160] move_addr_to_kernel+0x56/0xa0 Sep 27 19:02:58 rebecca kernel: [verify_iovec+97/224] verify_iovec+0x61/0xe0 Sep 27 19:02:58 rebecca kernel: [sys_sendmsg+457/656] sys_sendmsg+0x1c9/0x290 Sep 27 19:02:58 rebecca kernel: [do_no_page+413/800] do_no_page+0x19d/0x320 Sep 27 19:02:58 rebecca kernel: [handle_mm_fault+224/336] handle_mm_fault+0xe0/0x150 Sep 27 19:02:58 rebecca kernel: [expand_stack+45/160] expand_stack+0x2d/0xa0 Sep 27 19:02:58 rebecca kernel: [do_page_fault+300/1328] do_page_fault+0x12c/0x530 Sep 27 19:02:58 rebecca kernel: [sys_socket+61/96] sys_socket+0x3d/0x60 Sep 27 19:02:58 rebecca kernel: [sys_socketcall+610/672] sys_socketcall+0x262/0x2a0 Sep 27 19:02:58 rebecca kernel: [syscall_call+7/11] syscall_call+0x7/0xb Sep 27 19:02:58 rebecca kernel: Sep 27 19:02:58 rebecca kernel: Code: Bad EIP value. ksymoops 2.4.9 on i686 2.6.4. Options used -V (default) -k /proc/kallsyms (specified) -l /proc/modules (default) -o /lib/modules/2.6.4/ (default) -m /boot/System.map-2.6.4 (specified) Warning (read_ksyms): no kernel symbols in ksyms, is /proc/kallsyms a valid ksyms file? No modules in ksyms, skipping objects No ksyms, skipping lsmod Sep 27 19:02:58 rebecca kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000 Sep 27 19:02:58 rebecca kernel: 00000000 Sep 27 19:02:58 rebecca kernel: *pde = 00000000 Sep 27 19:02:58 rebecca kernel: Oops: 0000 [#1] Sep 27 19:02:58 rebecca kernel: CPU: 0 Sep 27 19:02:58 rebecca kernel: EIP: 0060:[<00000000>] Not tainted Sep 27 19:02:58 rebecca kernel: EFLAGS: 00010246 Sep 27 19:02:58 rebecca kernel: eax: 00000000 ebx: c61e00c0 ecx: 00000002 edx: c8949760 Sep 27 19:02:58 rebecca kernel: esi: 00000645 edi: c66139a0 ebp: c62c4290 esp: c6133b6c Sep 27 19:02:58 rebecca kernel: ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Sep 27 19:02:58 rebecca kernel: Stack: c022c644 c42303a0 00000000 c6d5b8a0 00000001 c0143330 c6d5b8a0 c6b31da0 Sep 27 19:02:58 rebecca kernel: 40016c70 c8949760 00000000 c42303a0 c42ce400 c61e00c0 00000f60 c0218cf7 Sep 27 19:02:58 rebecca kernel: 00001000 000000d0 c40de2e0 00000645 c40de2e0 c40de2e0 c61e00c0 00000645 Sep 27 19:02:58 rebecca kernel: Call Trace: Warning (Oops_read): Code line not seen, dumping what data is available >>EIP; 00000000 Before first symbol >>ebx; c61e00c0 <__crc_end_buffer_async_write+212c2/16a711> >>edx; c8949760 <__crc_svc_reserve+227f3d/27ddd3> >>edi; c66139a0 <__crc_pci_find_class+10e591/2f36d8> >>ebp; c62c4290 <__crc_end_buffer_async_write+105492/16a711> >>esp; c6133b6c <__crc_alloc_netdev+c86b/97afd> Sep 27 19:02:58 rebecca kernel: Code: Bad EIP value. -- Jason Boxman Perl Programmer / *NIX Systems Administrator Shimberg Center for Affordable Housing | University of Florida http://edseek.com/ - Linux and FOSS stuff _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/