I just had the following oops on a wireless-testing.git kernel, which is based on 2.6.27-rc2. The oops happened while copying files. [27931.315928] Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x00000595 [27931.317713] Faulting instruction address: 0xc0082db0 [27931.318841] Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1] [27931.319341] PREEMPT PowerMac [27931.319784] Modules linked in: b43 ssb mac80211 appletouch rfkill_input rfkill led_class input_polldev af_packet ohci_hcd pcmcia unix [last unloaded: mac80211] [27931.321217] NIP: c0082db0 LR: c0082da0 CTR: 00000000 [27931.321787] REGS: ef32fda0 TRAP: 0300 Tainted: G W (2.6.27-rc2-wl-wltest) [27931.322449] MSR: 00009032 <EE,ME,IR,DR> CR: 28000482 XER: 00000000 [27931.323197] DAR: 00000595, DSISR: 40000000 [27931.323765] TASK = ee29adf0[23865] 'cp' THREAD: ef32e000 [27931.323942] GPR00: c0082da0 ef32fe50 ee29adf0 00000000 bbbbbbbb 00000004 ef308ed4 c0cd5100 [27931.324796] GPR08: 0000005a 00000000 00000000 ef32fe50 0fedaad0 10028bc8 10040000 00000002 [27931.325665] GPR16: 10040000 10018875 bf9fbfc8 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 10020000 [27931.326560] GPR24: 00000000 20000000 28000482 00000000 00000501 00000000 ef32e000 ef32fe50 [27931.328037] NIP [c0082db0] exit_mmap+0xf4/0x11c [27931.328737] LR [c0082da0] exit_mmap+0xe4/0x11c [27931.329439] Call Trace: [27931.330084] [ef32fe50] [c0082da0] exit_mmap+0xe4/0x11c (unreliable) [27931.330885] [ef32fe80] [c003390c] mmput+0x58/0xe4 [27931.331631] [ef32fea0] [c003784c] exit_mm+0x128/0x140 [27931.332395] [ef32fed0] [c00392a8] do_exit+0x1fc/0x720 [27931.333168] [ef32ff10] [c0039850] do_group_exit+0x84/0xb0 [27931.333956] [ef32ff30] [c0039898] sys_exit_group+0x1c/0x34 [27931.334758] [ef32ff40] [c0015584] ret_from_syscall+0x0/0x38 [27931.335574] --- Exception: c01 at 0xfec7008 [27931.335576] LR = 0xfec6fd8 [27931.337066] Instruction dump: [27931.337813] 3929ffff 913e000c 801e0034 70090004 41a20014 483e1b31 4800000c 4bfffe7d [27931.338839] 7c7d1b78 2f9d0000 7fa3eb78 409efff0 <801c0094> 3140ffff 7d2a0110 0f090000 [27931.359143] ---[ end trace 633dedc970f0cb02 ]--- [27931.360589] Fixing recursive fault but reboot is needed! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html