Intel S5000PAL motherboard, kernel 2.6.23.9 with ipmisensors-20070630-1330.diff Oops occured after a first successful modprobe and rmmod of ipmisensors The oops seems to be here in the strcmp function in the kernel (fs/sysfs/dir.c) struct sysfs_dirent *sysfs_find_dirent(struct sysfs_dirent *parent_sd, const unsigned char *name) { struct sysfs_dirent *sd; for (sd = parent_sd->s_children; sd; sd = sd->s_sibling) if (sysfs_type(sd) && !strcmp(sd->s_name, name)) return sd; return NULL; } The actual oops ipmisensors - IPMI BMC sensors interface BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address f8bf02ba printing eip: b01bdcd7 *pde = 2fff1067 *pte = 00000000 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP Modules linked in: ipmisensors i2c_i801 ipmi_si ipmi_msghandler i2c_dev ac battery ipv6 sch_esfq cls_u32 xt_tcpudp xt_state ipt_LOG xt_limit iptable_nat nf_nat iptable_filter sch_htb ipt_IMQ nf_conntrack_ipv4 xt_layer7 xt_MARK iptable_mangle ip_tables x_tables imq ip_gre 8021q dm_snapshot dm_mirror dm_mod nf_conntrack_ftp nf_conntrack nfnetlink hwmon_vid e100 mii skge ide_disk ide_cd cdrom mousedev tsdev button iTC O_wdt iTCO_vendor_support i5000_edac psmouse i2c_core serio_raw edac_core 8250_pnp evdev pcspkr rtc ext3 jbd raid1 md_mod ide_generic sd_mod ata_generic ata_piix ahci uhci_hcd ehci_hcd piix libata generic scsi _mod ide_core usbcore thermal processor fan e1000 CPU: 1 EIP: 0060:[<b01bdcd7>] Not tainted VLI EFLAGS: 00010202 (2.6.23.9-0-686-imq-l7 #2) EIP is at strcmp+0x6/0x19 eax: f8bf02ba ebx: bb7579c4 ecx: 00000000 edx: f31b8be0 esi: f8bf02ba edi: f31b8be0 ebp: f31b8be0 esp: e6379d6c ds: 007b es: 007b fs: 00d8 gs: 0033 ss: 0068 Process modprobe (pid: 27317, ti=e6378000 task=f7f21570 task.ti=e6378000) Stack: f31b8be0 bc9943ac b019d13e e6379d94 bc9949c4 b019e53f bc994a2c df860400 bc994b64 00000246 bc9943ac ee005194 00000000 00000000 00000000 edd2ba40 df860400 edd2ba48 b0216f92 edd2ba48 b02d0aa6 edd2baa8 ffffffff 00000000 Call Trace: [<b019d13e>] sysfs_find_dirent+0x24/0x2d [<b019e53f>] sysfs_create_link+0x89/0x146 [<b0216f92>] class_device_add+0x2e0/0x39e [<b01b9ca8>] kobject_init+0x2f/0x3f [<b02170dd>] class_device_create+0x7d/0x9e [<b0221a91>] hwmon_device_register+0x80/0xbb [<f8bd52db>] ipmisensors_new_smi+0xca/0x20b [ipmisensors] [<b015e7b2>] enable_cpucache+0x29/0xa8 [<f8bff39f>] ipmi_smi_watcher_register+0xf2/0x1a1 [ipmi_msghandler] [<f8ac6072>] ipmisensors_init+0x72/0xc4 [ipmisensors] [<b013ea83>] sys_init_module+0x10a/0x1806 [<b015dc30>] kmem_cache_destroy+0x0/0xc2 [<b01080ff>] sys_mmap2+0xb5/0xb7 [<b0103e62>] sysenter_past_esp+0x5f/0x85 ======================= Code: d2 89 c7 89 d0 b9 ff ff ff ff f2 ae 4f 89 e9 49 78 06 ac aa 84 c0 75 f7 31 c0 aa 89 d8 83 c4 0c 5b 5e 5f 5d c3 57 56 89 c6 89 d7 <ac> ae 75 08 84 c0 75 f8 31 c0 eb 04 19 c0 0c 01 5e 5f c3 57 56 EIP: [<b01bdcd7>] strcmp+0x6/0x19 SS:ESP 0068:e6379d6c -- Dan Borlovan Level 7 Software