On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 10:51 PM, Ramon Fried <ramon.fried@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi. > I'm developing a driver on PowerPC kernel version 3.10. > Once In a while, I get the following OOPS and the system freezes. > > Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0xffffffdc > Faulting instruction address: 0xfb7780c8 > Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1] > > When I look at the address where the paging fails, it looks like a wrong address (0xffffffdc). > The stack trace points to a list_for_each() macro. > Could it be that NULL linked list node container off was called ? Am I in the right direction ? You should try to find out if the number 0xdc has any significance. Is it an offset of the member in the structure that you are trying to access. If yes, then you know what the structure address was (most probably -1 or something like that), then backtrack how can you have that value. HTH _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
