From: Marc Koschewski <marc@osknowledge.org>
To: Doug McNaught <doug@mcnaught.org>
Cc: Marc Koschewski <marc@osknowledge.org>,
Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>,
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
Linux-LKLM <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG GIT] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address e1380288
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 16:29:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060211152930.GC5721@stiffy.osknowledge.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y80hsz26.fsf@asmodeus.mcnaught.org>
* Doug McNaught <doug@mcnaught.org> [2006-02-11 10:19:29 -0500]:
> Marc Koschewski <marc@osknowledge.org> writes:
>
> > Moreover, I don't know in what way a PCI graphics adapter is pissing off USB
> > devices. Is there a chance to?
>
> Sure. Drivers run in kernel mode and, if buggy, can scribble all over
Sure thing.
> any part of kernel memory, causing problems in completely unrelated
> places.
But the trace I sent didn't (directly) do any memory allocation so the case was
clear to me.
>From a developers point of view I totally agree that doing some bad code 'here'
might crash us 'there'. But the backtrace didn't look like this to me...
Marc
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-11 15:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-10 21:41 Marc Koschewski
2006-02-10 22:25 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2006-02-10 22:42 ` Marc Koschewski
2006-02-11 9:01 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-02-11 15:10 ` Marc Koschewski
2006-02-11 15:19 ` Doug McNaught
2006-02-11 15:29 ` Marc Koschewski [this message]
2006-02-11 15:39 ` Doug McNaught
2006-02-11 21:10 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-11 22:54 ` Carlos Martín
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