From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756151AbYGPBoe (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:44:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754730AbYGPBoT (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:44:19 -0400 Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com ([209.85.200.173]:37996 "EHLO wf-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753989AbYGPBoS (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:44:18 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=iiG85vAA8V8lrDLNAx1l6GU+mcG2LTcqpRMI412zA+EjTDqiBa9l+IHzl3S2VidZDM lASzb+UvnWyIQRnIjofWfWeE68WMW9blilIMo2eDaAsWSYxtAA35UpxJNc0UHvHuViy/ tWosufSqCYJfYDa9WB4SGIe9/Ux+PY0MRzs2s= Message-ID: <19f34abd0807151844g2cdac2f7x41c2d6832339b434@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:44:18 +0200 From: "Vegard Nossum" To: "Linux Kernel Mailing List" Subject: v2.6.26: Bad EIP value at shutdown MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, My apologies for the bad report, I just got this when shutting down a v2.6.26, and with no camera at hand, I wrote down what I could see: The last line of the stack dump contained the number 0xfee1dead, which I assume is some kind of magic number. The stacktrace: notifier_call_chain _cpu_down disable_nonboot_cpus acpi_clear_gpe_block kernel_power_off sys_reboot Code: Bad EIP value So a NULL-pointer call. Vegard -- "The animistic metaphor of the bug that maliciously sneaked in while the programmer was not looking is intellectually dishonest as it disguises that the error is the programmer's own creation." -- E. W. Dijkstra, EWD1036