Please CC as i am not subscribed to the list. I-m using 2.6.22.9 and when I tried to insert this line it gave the oops: $IPT -I INPUT -p tcp --dport 80 -m string --algo bm --string "$MyNick" -j DROP I have iptables v1.3.8 BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address e0000000 printing eip: c01e2707 *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 [#1] CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[<c01e2707>] Not tainted VLI EFLAGS: 00010286 (2.6.22.9-iteyeb11 #8) EIP is at bm_init+0xd7/0x210 eax: 0e6a83e8 ebx: ffffffff ecx: 0e6a83e8 edx: 00000000 esi: d1957c18 edi: 00000000 ebp: 00000000 esp: da335bcc ds: 007b es: 007b fs: 0000 gs: 0033 ss: 0068 Process iptables (pid: 29753, ti=da335000 task=c0ef1590 task.ti=da335000) Stack: 00000000 d1957800 d1957810 00000000 c034822a da335c34 00000082 da335d9c da335bec d201a0c0 d201a0c3 c03a4e1a c03eae00 c01e2308 d201a0d0 d201a0bc d201a09c c02f3ce0 0000009c c02f3d1e 000000d0 00000001 c03ffee0 c032f50f Call Trace: [<c034822a>] __sched_text_start+0x25a/0x590 [<c01e2308>] textsearch_prepare+0x68/0x90 [<c02f3ce0>] checkentry+0x0/0x60 [<c02f3d1e>] checkentry+0x3e/0x60 [<c032f50f>] translate_table+0x37f/0x740 [<c032fa56>] do_ipt_set_ctl+0x186/0x470 [<c02ef5cd>] nf_sockopt+0xad/0x100 [<c02ef670>] nf_setsockopt+0x20/0x30 [<c0300559>] ip_setsockopt+0x109/0xc40 [<c02ef5f2>] nf_sockopt+0xd2/0x100 [<c02cb0dc>] release_sock+0xc/0x80 [<c02ff824>] ip_getsockopt+0x114/0x670 [<c01d6c54>] prio_tree_insert+0x74/0x240 [<c01da278>] mmx_clear_page+0x18/0x64 [<c013e30c>] get_page_from_freelist+0x21c/0x2f0 [<c013e436>] __alloc_pages+0x56/0x2f0 [<c013c313>] filemap_nopage+0x143/0x2e0 [<c0145952>] __handle_mm_fault+0x722/0x7c0 [<c02caa23>] sock_common_setsockopt+0x23/0x30 [<c02c89df>] sys_setsockopt+0x5f/0xb0 [<c02ca459>] sys_socketcall+0x209/0x280 [<c0114be0>] do_page_fault+0x0/0x5f0 [<c0103d92>] sysenter_past_esp+0x5f/0x85 ======================= Code: 00 8b 7f 04 89 3c 24 8b 0c 24 8b 54 24 08 89 4c 82 04 40 3d 01 01 00 00 75 ed 49 74 26 8b 1c 24 8b 32 31 c9 66 31 c0 4b 8b 3c 24 <0f> b6 14 06 41 29 c7 89 f8 8b 7c 24 08 48 39 cb 89 44 97 08 89 EIP: [<c01e2707>] bm_init+0xd7/0x210 SS:ESP 0068:da335bcc - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html