From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 4 Mar 2003 13:37:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 4 Mar 2003 13:37:18 -0500 Received: from packet.digeo.com ([12.110.80.53]:29852 "EHLO packet.digeo.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 4 Mar 2003 13:37:18 -0500 Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 10:48:11 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Con Kolivas Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: oops Re: 2.5.63-mm2 Message-Id: <20030304104811.6385c69c.akpm@digeo.com> In-Reply-To: <200303042320.50458.kernel@kolivas.org> References: <200303042320.50458.kernel@kolivas.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.9 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 04 Mar 2003 18:47:40.0455 (UTC) FILETIME=[888DDB70:01C2E27E] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Con Kolivas wrote: > > oops running contest: > > Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 9acfdcf2 You had an ext3 handle which has a trashed ->journal pointer. I've seen that once, possibly twice before too. I don't know what is causing it. It is just kmalloc'ed memory. It could be anywhere in the kernel :( Seems to have started around 2.5.63.