From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932518AbVIHFRV (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Sep 2005 01:17:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932528AbVIHFRV (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Sep 2005 01:17:21 -0400 Received: from web52601.mail.yahoo.com ([206.190.48.204]:49513 "HELO web52601.mail.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932518AbVIHFRV (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Sep 2005 01:17:21 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=g6NysYw1wcHWeTUotUHlGlgeTYNwT0ABjlth0baqn5uReUwz8zGPrJs+lg8tYQ6w+kShd9p7jQ1dqCbKfTnWSL/NX9N1A3k/c9Hs0lP/NkseXm7a+75aSBwAnPjF8eGYnOwHgJ31AKiLjnPWMoeL772WU4Bi7a4OJdfTm/wbccs= ; Message-ID: <20050908051716.94223.qmail@web52601.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 22:17:16 -0700 (PDT) From: nazim khan Subject: Re: How to find out kernel stack over flow? To: Michal Schmidt Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <431EA245.2040703@stud.feec.vutbr.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Thanks Michal for your response, I forgot to mention that I am using linux 2.4.26, and STACKOVERFLOW option is not available here. regards, Nazim --- Michal Schmidt wrote: > nazim khan wrote: > > I suspect that one of my module that I am > inserting in > > the kernel may be causing the stack overflow which > is > > leading to kernel crash (may because it is > corrupting > > some one lese memory). > > > > How can I find this out? > > You could enable CONFIG_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW. > If you showed us your module's source code, someone > might see the bug. > > Michal > ______________________________________________________ Click here to donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. http://store.yahoo.com/redcross-donate3/