Oops under 2.6.17 in tty_write?

[Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>]

Greetings,

  I'm getting a pretty consistant oops under 2.6.17 which looks to be
  associated with tty_write.  Same box works just perfectly under
  2.6.16.  Technically these are stock Debian kernels but I don't expect
  it's something in the Debian patches.  It could be a vserver issue but
  that also seems unlikely to me.

  The kernel command-line would have looked something like this:
  Kernel command line: 
	root=/dev/md0 ro earlyprintk=serial,ttyS0,9600,keep console=tty0 console=ttyS0,9600

  Note that I modified that command-line a number of times and continued 
  to get an oops (I don't know for sure that it was always the *same* tho,
  and I only have serial-console access, but it didn't come all the way up
  when booted w/o earlyprintk= or console= arguments, of course, that
  could have been due to something else too).

  Unfortunately, I didn't grab the full boot log.  If that's necessary then
  I can look into finding a time to do that (it's a production server tho,
  so folks aren't exactly keen on my rebooting it a bunch).

  Here's the oops:

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000c
 printing eip:
c02087be
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000 [#1]
SMP 
Modules linked in: i810_audio ac97_codec intel_agp agpgart hw_random psmouse snd_intel8x0 i82875p_edac snd_ac97_codec snd_ac97_bus evdev pcspkr serio_raw edac_mc i2c_i801 floppy snd_pcm snd_timer snd 8250_pnp shpchp pci_hotplug i2c_core soundcore snd_page_alloc parport_pc parport rtc ext3 jbd mbcache dm_mirror dm_snapshot dm_mod raid1 md_mod ide_generic ide_disk generic piix ehci_hcd uhci_hcd ata_piix libata usbcore ide_core scsi_mod e1000 thermal processor fan
CPU:    0
EIP:    0060:[<c02087be>]    Not tainted VLI
EFLAGS: 00010206   (2.6.17-2-vserver-686 #1) 
EIP is at uart_write_room+0x9/0x16
eax: dff61000   ebx: 00000006   ecx: c19df030   edx: 00000000
esi: df89a000   edi: dfc47400   ebp: 00000006   esp: df8dbf18
ds: 007b   es: 007b   ss: 0068
Process S03udev (pid: 2111[#0], threadinfo=df8da000 task=c19df030)
Stack: c01fcab1 dfc47400 dfa2dd40 00000282 00000000 c19df030 c0116bbf df89a138 
       df89a138 00000006 df89a000 00000006 00000006 c01fa69b 00000006 080f6408 
       dfa2dd40 c01fc9d0 df89a00c df89a3e8 00000000 c01fb02c dfa2dd40 dfa2dd40 
Call Trace:
 <c01fcab1> write_chan+0xe1/0x293  <c0116bbf> default_wake_function+0x0/0xc        
 <c01fa69b> tty_write+0x147/0x1d8  <c01fc9d0> write_chan+0x0/0x293 
 <c01fb02c> redirected_tty_write+0x1c/0x6c  <c01fb010> redirected_tty_write+0x0/0x6c
 <c0159e05> vfs_write+0xa1/0x140  <c015a3ef> sys_write+0x3c/0x63
 <c0102ae7> sysenter_past_esp+0x54/0x75 
Code: 09 08 8b 40 10 74 09 81 60 10 ff ff ff fd eb 07 81 48 10 00 00 00 02 8b 5e 68 89 f0 ff 53 2c 5b 5e c3 8b 80 80 01 00 00 8b 50 10 <8b> 42 0c 2b 42 08 48 25 ff 0f 00 00 c3 8b 80 80 01 00 00 8b 50 
EIP: [<c02087be>] uart_write_room+0x9/0x16 SS:ESP 0068:df8dbf18


	Thanks,

		Stephen