Re: [>=2.6.26-git9]general protection fault in PREEMPT SMP when downloading

From: Eric ROMMELFANGEN
Date: Sat Jul 26 2008 - 03:54:31 EST


Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 12:12:04AM +0200, Eric ROMMELFANGEN wrote:
Since 2.6.26-git9 kernel, I have this protection fault when downloading
files with ftp or http protocol :
...
trying to fetch "http:www..."
general protection fault : 0000 [1] PREEMPT SMP
CPU1
Modules linked in: iptables_raw xt_comment xt_policy ipt_ULOG ipt_TTL ...

I attach my .config.

Could someone tells me what the matter with this error ?

No, unless you post full protection fault message not just start of it.


hi Alexey,


I found a patch in this post which seems to solve my bug :

http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/24/186

I am going to test it more and sorry for the noise.

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