> So it might be the culprit. As the reason of the corruption is not yet > understood, it might be that suspend/resume cycle is not necessary > pre-requisite for this to trigger, it might just make it more likely. It might just be virtual console switching. Normally I live in X, but I might have switched to a text console for some reason (I don't specifically remember doing this, but it's very plausible for me). > And the corruption is observed to be indeed several writes of 0x00000000, > so it could easily lead to null pointer dereferences all over the place. > > Are you able to reproduce the problem if you turn kernel modesetting off? Unfortunately, this is the only time it's happened to me with kernel modesetting *on*. Would repeated checksums of a kernel tree be a good way to detect random memory stomping? -- 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