hello, a linux-2.4.20 (vanilla) machine we use as a router/iptables firewall crashes once a month in what seems to be the IP stack (see the lspci/lsmod/ksymoops output below). Martin Josefsson advised me to send my report over here, and ask if it looks like a real bug or if it's memory corruption. He also advised me to upgrade to fix a known memory corruption bug with conntrack, and i'll try that, but since the crash is quite difficult to reproduce, i won't know if that known bug was causing the problems for me soon. Does somebody see something in the ksymoops output ? thanks, greetings, frank ---- lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 430FX - 82437FX TSC [Triton I] (rev 01) 00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371FB PIIX ISA [Triton I] (rev 02) 00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371FB PIIX IDE [Triton I] (rev 02) 00:11.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8029(AS) 00:12.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8029(AS) 00:13.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905 100BaseTX [Boomerang] 00:14.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT86C100A [Rhine 10/100] (rev 06) ---- modules Module Size Used by Not tainted ipt_limit 960 19 (autoclean) ip_conntrack_ftp 3776 0 (unused) ipt_state 608 4 (autoclean) ipt_LOG 3232 13 (autoclean) iptable_nat 14452 1 (autoclean) ip_conntrack 16716 3 (autoclean) [ip_conntrack_ftp ipt_state iptable_nat] iptable_filter 1728 1 (autoclean) ip_tables 10624 7 [ipt_limit ipt_state ipt_LOG iptable_nat iptable_filter] serial 42336 0 (autoclean) ne2k-pci 4832 2 8390 5952 0 [ne2k-pci] via-rhine 11912 1 mii 2288 0 [via-rhine] 3c59x 24712 1 ---- decoded panic ksymoops 2.4.5 on i586 2.4.20. Options used -V (default) -k /proc/ksyms (default) -l /proc/modules (default) -o /lib/modules/2.4.20/ (default) -m /boot/System.map-2.4.20 (specified) CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[<c01cc5fd>] Not tainted Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386 -a i386 EFLAGS: 00010246 eax: c0246a40 ebx: c0dd34e0 ecx: c0b118a0 edx: 00000000 esi: c1380300 edi: c07e4220 ebp: c0dc4800 esp: c024bdf0 ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process swapper (pid: 0, stackpage=c024b000) Stack: c1380300 00000000 00000004 c01d886c c01d88fd c1380300 00000001 c0dc4800 c01ce9c6 c1380300 c1380300 c0dc4800 00000002 c01d5f1c 00000000 c02aee80 c01d8852 00000002 00000004 c1380300 00000000 c0dc4800 c01d886c c1380300 Call Trace: [<c01d886c>] [<c01d88fd>] [<c01ce9c6>] [<c01d5f1c>] [<c01d8852>] [<c01d886c>] [<c01d5f6a>] [<c01ce9c6>] [<c01d05dc>] [<c01d5ec4>] [<c01d5f1c>] [<c01d5178>] [<c01d52f9>] [<c01d5178>] [<c01ce9c6>] [<c01d5006>] [<c01d5178>] [<c01c9593>] [<c01c962d>] [<c01c9740>] [<c0116cda>] [<c0109cad>] [<c0106e10>] [<c010be38>] [<c0106e10>] [<c0106e33>] [<c0106e97>] [<c0105000>] [<c0105027>] Code: 62 8b 40 02 25 ff ff 00 04 50 53 57 e8 ee fd ff 83 c4 0c >>EIP; c01cc5fd <neigh_resolve_output+91/19c> <===== >>eax; c0246a40 <ipv4_dst_ops+0/2c> >>ebx; c0dd34e0 <_end+b2288c/25583ac> >>ecx; c0b118a0 <_end+860c4c/25583ac> >>esi; c1380300 <_end+10cf6ac/25583ac> >>edi; c07e4220 <_end+5335cc/25583ac> >>ebp; c0dc4800 <_end+b13bac/25583ac> >>esp; c024bdf0 <init_task_union+1df0/2000> Trace; c01d886c <ip_finish_output2+0/d0> Trace; c01d88fd <ip_finish_output2+91/d0> Trace; c01ce9c6 <nf_hook_slow+ee/144> Trace; c01d5f1c <ip_forward_finish+0/54> Trace; c01d8852 <ip_finish_output+fa/100> Trace; c01d886c <ip_finish_output2+0/d0> Trace; c01d5f6a <ip_forward_finish+4e/54> Trace; c01ce9c6 <nf_hook_slow+ee/144> Trace; c01d05dc <netlink_sendmsg+70/218> Trace; c01d5ec4 <ip_forward+1a4/1fc> Trace; c01d5f1c <ip_forward_finish+0/54> Trace; c01d5178 <ip_rcv_finish+0/1b8> Trace; c01d52f9 <ip_rcv_finish+181/1b8> Trace; c01d5178 <ip_rcv_finish+0/1b8> Trace; c01ce9c6 <nf_hook_slow+ee/144> Trace; c01d5006 <ip_rcv+336/36c> Trace; c01d5178 <ip_rcv_finish+0/1b8> Trace; c01c9593 <netif_receive_skb+ff/12c> Trace; c01c962d <process_backlog+6d/110> Trace; c01c9740 <net_rx_action+70/108> Trace; c0116cda <do_softirq+5a/ac> Trace; c0109cad <do_IRQ+a1/b4> Trace; c0106e10 <default_idle+0/28> Trace; c010be38 <call_do_IRQ+5/d> Trace; c0106e10 <default_idle+0/28> Trace; c0106e33 <default_idle+23/28> Trace; c0106e97 <cpu_idle+3f/54> Trace; c0105000 <_stext+0/0> Trace; c0105027 <rest_init+27/28> Code; c01cc5fd <neigh_resolve_output+91/19c> 00000000 <_EIP>: Code; c01cc5fd <neigh_resolve_output+91/19c> <===== 0: 62 8b 40 02 25 ff bound %ecx,0xff250240(%ebx) <===== Code; c01cc603 <neigh_resolve_output+97/19c> 6: ff 00 incl (%eax) Code; c01cc605 <neigh_resolve_output+99/19c> 8: 04 50 add $0x50,%al Code; c01cc607 <neigh_resolve_output+9b/19c> a: 53 push %ebx Code; c01cc608 <neigh_resolve_output+9c/19c> b: 57 push %edi Code; c01cc609 <neigh_resolve_output+9d/19c> c: e8 ee fd ff 83 call 83fffdff <_EIP+0x83fffdff> 441cc3fc Before first symbol Code; c01cc60e <neigh_resolve_output+a2/19c> 11: c4 0c 00 les (%eax,%eax,1),%ecx <0>Kernel panic: Aiee, killing interrupt handler! -- Frank Dekervel - frank.dekervel@student.kuleuven.ac.be Mechelsestraat 88 3000 Leuven (Belgium) - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html