Re: 2.6.18-1.2689.fc6PAE: oops in ext3_clear_inode+0x52/0x8b

From: Eric Sandeen
Date: Tue Oct 03 2006 - 01:32:45 EST


Andrew Morton wrote:
On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 13:42:26 -0700
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

I just filed this in the Redhat bugzilla, since its from the FC6 distro kernel. But since its fairly close to current kernel.org kernels, I thought it might be relevent.

The bug is https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=208488

Unfortunately this isn't a very useful report since it was a once-off, and there's a P-tainting module in there. But if anyone sees anything else like this, it's interesting.

The oops is:

BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 756e6547

756e6547 -> uneG. Matches "GenuineIntel".

That'll get written into a temporary page by the /proc/cpuinfo handler, so
it might just be a use-uninitialised.

But strangely enough, it's the second report we've seen with this exact backtrace, and the same "Genu" ascii string where the i_default_acl should be.

Both boxes had been through a suspend-to-ram recently, just in case that might matter.

Seems like something more than random chance...

-Eric
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