Re: Oops with tmpfs on both 2.4.22 & 2.6.0-test11

From: William Lee Irwin III
Date: Sun Nov 30 2003 - 20:27:11 EST


On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 01:17:46PM -0800, James W McMechan wrote:
> Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 00200200
> c018a152
> *pde = 00000000
> Oops: 0002 [#1]
> CPU: 0
> EIP: 0060:[<c018a152>] Not tainted

This is significantly different in nature from the 2.4 oops, since
2.4 hit NULL and this pointer is total garbage.

Either it's a double bitflip or even worse is afoot.


-- wli
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