Bugreport kernel 2.4.0-test8

From: Michael Zieger (m.zieger@zmi.at)
Date: Tue Sep 19 2000 - 03:33:49 EST

I just found a big bug in kernel 2.4.0-test8 that leads to a major
crash because PID 4 [kupdate] dies.

I could reproduce the problem by doing this:
- Open StarOffice under KDE
- Create new textfile
- Try to save it under a via NFS mounted directory

Here are the two kernel oopses that occured on both tests:
-----------------------------------------------------------------
kernel BUG at ll_rw_blk.c:711!
invalid operand: 0000
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010:[<c01885fd>]
EFLAGS: 00010286
eax: 0000001f ebx: cb4e5cc0 ecx: 0000001f edx: 00000002
esi: cb4e5cc0 edi: cff3f298 ebp: 00000001 esp: cff4bf34
ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Process kupdate (pid: 4, stackpage=cff4b000)
Stack: c02876a5 c0287982 000002c7 cb4e5cc0 00000001 00000020 00000000 001e8480
       cff3f2b0 cff3f2a8 00000000 00000008 00000000 00000000 c0187fef 000000fe
       c0188c2d cff3f298 00000001 cb4e5cc0 cb4e5cc0 00000000 00000001 cff4bfd0
Call Trace: [<c02876a5>] [<c0287982>] [<c0187fef>] [<c0188c2d>] [<c0188d91>] [<c0135c4a>] [<c0271f36>]
       [<c0135cfd>] [<c013601a>] [<c0109618>]
Code: 0f 0b 83 c4 0c 0f b6 46 15 0f b7 4e 14 8b 14 85 a0 de 35 c0
-----------------------------------------------------------------
kernel BUG at ll_rw_blk.c:711!
invalid operand: 0000
CPU: 1
EIP: 0010:[<c01885fd>]
EFLAGS: 00010286
eax: 0000001f ebx: cf1152c0 ecx: 00000097 edx: 01000000
esi: cf1152c0 edi: cff3f298 ebp: 00000001 esp: cff4bf34
ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Process kupdate (pid: 4, stackpage=cff4b000)
Stack: c02876a5 c0287982 000002c7 cf1152c0 00000001 00000020 00000000 001e8480
       cff3f2b0 cff3f2a8 00000000 00000008 00000000 00000000 c0187fef 000000fe
       c0188c2d cff3f298 00000001 cf1152c0 cf1152c0 00000000 00000001 cff4bfd0
Call Trace: [<c02876a5>] [<c0287982>] [<c0187fef>] [<c0188c2d>] [<c0188d91>] [<c0135c4a>] [<c0271f36>]
       [<c0135cfd>] [<c013601a>] [<c0109618>]
Code: 0f 0b 83 c4 0c 0f b6 46 15 0f b7 4e 14 8b 14 85 a0 de 35 c0
-----------------------------------------------------------------

After this, you StarOffice dies and can't even be killed via kill -9.
On shutdown, the system hangs. After reboot, the /tmp filesystem was
corrupted requiring manual fsck, which moves a file to lost+found (a
temporary file from StarOffice).

My system is otherwise rock solid, I switched back to kernel
2.4.0-test5 which is OK for me.

I hope this helps, and please don't hurt me if this bug has already
been reportet, but I don't read this list 'cause I'm not a developer.
If you need to know more, feel free to contact me.

greets, and go on with The Good Work
mike 

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// Ing. Michael Zieger, BSc.   ---    Zieger Michael EDV-Lösungen
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