The patch titled oops in drivers/net/shaper.c has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was oops-in-drivers-net-shaperc.patch This patch was dropped because it is obsolete ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: oops in drivers/net/shaper.c From: Frederik Deweerdt <deweerdt@xxxxxxx> Hi, The following code: [...] s = socket(AF_PACKET, SOCK_RAW, htons(ETH_P_ALL)); socket_address.sll_family = PF_PACKET; socket_address.sll_protocol = htons(ETH_P_IP); /* * this happens to be shaper0 on my system */ => socket_address.sll_ifindex = 2; socket_address.sll_hatype = ARPHRD_ETHER; socket_address.sll_pkttype = PACKET_OTHERHOST; socket_address.sll_halen = ETH_ALEN; socket_address.sll_addr[0] = 0x00; socket_address.sll_addr[1] = 0x04; socket_address.sll_addr[2] = 0x75; socket_address.sll_addr[3] = 0xC8; socket_address.sll_addr[4] = 0x28; socket_address.sll_addr[5] = 0xE5; socket_address.sll_addr[6] = 0x00; socket_address.sll_addr[7] = 0x00; memcpy((void *) buffer, (void *) dest_mac, ETH_ALEN); memcpy((void *) (buffer + ETH_ALEN), (void *) src_mac, ETH_ALEN); eh->h_proto = 0x00; for (j = 0; j < 1500; j++) { data[j] = (unsigned char) ((int) (255.0 * rand() / (RAND_MAX + 1.0))); } /* * Oopses here */ => send_result = sendto(s, buffer, 1499, 0, (struct sockaddr *) &socket_address, sizeof(socket_address)); [...] Causes the following oops: [ 66.355049] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000 [ 66.355053] printing eip: [ 66.355055] 00000000 [ 66.355056] *pde = 00000000 [ 66.355059] Oops: 0000 [#1] [ 66.355061] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC [ 66.355065] last sysfs file: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.2/modalias [ 66.355069] Modules linked in: snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_seq_dummy snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_seq_device af_packet ohci_hcd fuse cpufreq_stats cpufreq_powersave cpufreq_ondemand cpufreq_conservative speedstep_centrino freq_table processor ac battery i915 drm usb_storage parport_pc parport sr_mod serio_raw yenta_socket rsrc_nonstatic pcmcia_core ipw2200 tg3 snd_intel8x0 snd_ac97_codec pcspkr ac97_bus snd_pcm ehci_hcd snd_timer snd soundcore snd_page_alloc uhci_hcd usbcore shpchp pci_hotplug joydev evdev tsdev [ 66.355115] CPU: 0 [ 66.355116] EIP: 0060:[<00000000>] Not tainted VLI [ 66.355117] EFLAGS: 00210282 (2.6.20-rc4-mm1-def01 #2) [ 66.355122] EIP is at 0x0 [ 66.355124] eax: f6a1f480 ebx: f705a500 ecx: 00000800 edx: 00000000 [ 66.355128] esi: f6a1f480 edi: 00000800 ebp: f6261d90 esp: f6261d70 [ 66.355131] ds: 007b es: 007b fs: 00d8 gs: 0033 ss: 0068 [ 66.355134] Process aze (pid: 11005, ti=f6260000 task=f62d08b0 task.ti=f6260000) [ 66.355136] Stack: c0294465 f6261ec0 00000000 000005db f705a000 f6261f34 f6316380 f705a000 [ 66.355145] f6261dc4 f8adaf03 f6261ec0 00000000 000005db f6b1b400 f6a1f480 00080e38 [ 66.355153] f6261ec0 ffffffea f8adc1e0 000005db f6316380 f6261eac c030e1c5 000005db [ 66.355161] Call Trace: [ 66.355163] [<c0105265>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x30 [ 66.355171] [<c0105324>] show_stack_log_lvl+0xa9/0xd5 [ 66.355176] [<c0105549>] show_registers+0x1f9/0x362 [ 66.355180] [<c01057de>] die+0x12c/0x261 [ 66.355184] [<c039864f>] do_page_fault+0x2ef/0x5d0 [ 66.355188] [<c0396c74>] error_code+0x7c/0x84 [ 66.355192] [<f8adaf03>] packet_sendmsg+0x147/0x201 [af_packet] [ 66.355199] [<c030e1c5>] sock_sendmsg+0xf9/0x116 [ 66.355204] [<c030eb54>] sys_sendto+0xbf/0xe0 [ 66.355208] [<c030f494>] sys_socketcall+0x1aa/0x277 [ 66.355212] [<c01041ea>] sysenter_past_esp+0x5f/0x99 [ 66.355216] ======================= [ 66.355218] Code: Bad EIP value. [ 66.355223] EIP: [<00000000>] 0x0 SS:ESP 0068:f6261d70 shaper_header() should check for shaper->dev not being NULL (ie. the shaper was actually attached) as in the following patch. This happens in mainline too (tested 2.6.19.2). Signed-off-by: Frederik Deweerdt <frederik.deweerdt@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/shaper.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff -puN drivers/net/shaper.c~oops-in-drivers-net-shaperc drivers/net/shaper.c --- a/drivers/net/shaper.c~oops-in-drivers-net-shaperc +++ a/drivers/net/shaper.c @@ -340,6 +340,10 @@ static int shaper_header(struct sk_buff { struct shaper *sh=dev->priv; int v; + + if (sh->dev == NULL) + return -ENODEV; + if(sh_debug) printk("Shaper header\n"); skb->dev=sh->dev; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from deweerdt@xxxxxxx are git-acpi-early-acpi-lockup.patch remove-tcp-header-from-tcp_v4_check-take-2.patch oops-in-drivers-net-shaperc.patch disable-init-initramfsc-updated-fix.patch user-ns-prepare-copy_tree-copy_mnt-and-their-callers-to-handle-errs-fix.patch user-ns-implement-user-ns-unshare.patch reiser4-sb_sync_inodes-fix.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html