On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 11:14:46 +0530 Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The 2.6.25-rc2 kernel oopses while running dbench on ext3 filesystem > mounted with mount -o data=writeback,nobh option on the x86_64 box > > BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000000 > IP: [<ffffffff80274972>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x3a/0x6c > PGD 1f6860067 PUD 1f5d64067 PMD 0 > Oops: 0000 [1] SMP > CPU 3 > Modules linked in: > Pid: 4271, comm: dbench Not tainted 2.6.25-rc2-autotest #1 > RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff80274972>] [<ffffffff80274972>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x3a/0x6c > RSP: 0000:ffff8101fb041dc8 EFLAGS: 00010246 > RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff810180033c00 RCX: ffffffff8027b269 > RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00000000000080d0 RDI: ffffffff80632d70 > RBP: 00000000000080d0 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000 > R10: ffff8101feb36e50 R11: 0000000000000190 R12: 0000000000000001 > R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff8101f8f38000 R15: 00000000ffffff9c > FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8101fff0f000(0063) knlGS:00000000f7e41460 > CS: 0010 DS: 002b ES: 002b CR0: 0000000080050033 > CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 00000001f5620000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 > DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 > DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 > Process dbench (pid: 4271, threadinfo ffff8101fb040000, task ffff8101fb180000) > Stack: 0000000000000001 ffff8101fb041ea8 0000000000000001 ffffffff8027b269 > ffff8101fb041ea8 ffffffff80281fe8 0000000000000001 0000000000000000 > ffff8101fb041ea8 00000000ffffff9c 000000000000000b 0000000000000001 > Call Trace: > [<ffffffff8027b269>] get_empty_filp+0x55/0xf9 > [<ffffffff80281fe8>] __path_lookup_intent_open+0x22/0x8f > [<ffffffff80282853>] open_namei+0x86/0x5a7 > [<ffffffff8027d019>] vfs_stat_fd+0x3c/0x4a > [<ffffffff80279ab1>] do_filp_open+0x1c/0x3d > [<ffffffff80279c2c>] get_unused_fd_flags+0x79/0x111 > [<ffffffff80279dce>] do_sys_open+0x46/0xca > [<ffffffff80221c82>] ia32_sysret+0x0/0xa > Looks to me like we broke slab. Christoph is offline until the 27th.. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html