Re: [BUG] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Mon Oct 29 2007 - 03:42:56 EST


On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 14:17:14 -0300 "Daniel Cid" <dcid@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Sorry if it isn't the right place to ask this question, but I was
> reported the following error in the kernel.
>
> Syscheckd (process in the crash) is a userland (no kernel/lkm code)
> file integrity checking tool that scans the system and generates the
> md5/sha1 sum of all the files (if it helps to identify the problem).
>
> I am guessing it is a bug in the kernel, since no user process should
> cause this...
>
>
> [root@ss ossec]# uname -a
> Linux ss 2.6.9-55.0.9.ELsmp #1 SMP Thu Sep 27 18:27:41 EDT 2007 i686 i686
> i386 GNU/Linux
>

Sorry, we all stopped thinking about 2.6.9 years ago - unless you're able
to reproduce this on a current kernel (for example, latest Fedora), the
place to report this is https://bugzilla.redhat.com/

Thanks.
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