Re: [BUG GIT] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtualaddress e1380288

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Sat Feb 11 2006 - 16:09:09 EST


Doug McNaught <doug@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Marc Koschewski <marc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > But the trace I sent didn't (directly) do any memory allocation so
> > the case was clear to me.
> >
> > From a developers point of view I totally agree that doing some bad
> > code 'here' might crash us 'there'. But the backtrace didn't look
> > like this to me...
>
> You have no idea what might have happened a second ago, or a minute
> ago, or five minutes ago. Corrupted memory is like a
> time-bomb--things don't always break right away.
>

Probability this bug was caused by the nvidia module: 0.1%
Probability this bug was caused by USB or SCSI: 99.9%

SCSI and USB device management remain quite buggy and we need all the help
we can get in finding and fixing these problems.
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