Re: devfs oops

Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
Sun, 4 Oct 1998 14:27:45 +1000


slava@galaxycorp.com writes:
> Another oops to keep you guys busy :)
>
> Kernel 2.1.123+devfs v62. Any attempt to access /proc/partitions gives
> me:
>
> Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 74316230
[deleted]
> 0xc01471d8 <array_read+216>: addl $0x1c,%esp

Hm. Yeah, I've just tried this and get the same effect :-( I'll have a
poke around.

> Maybe array_read uses a structure member as a function, and that
> member happened to be corrupt? BTW, this doesn't occur without
> devfs. Devfs has rather long device names - maybe an overflow?

Possibly. How about looking for a buffer to increase the size of?

Regards,

Richard....

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