From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754661AbXLDPjg (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Dec 2007 10:39:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753492AbXLDPj3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Dec 2007 10:39:29 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:41863 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750764AbXLDPj2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Dec 2007 10:39:28 -0500 Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 07:37:29 -0800 From: Arjan van de Ven To: Cc: Subject: Re: EIP problem (kernel: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer) Message-ID: <20071204073729.212c2b3f@laptopd505.fenrus.org> In-Reply-To: <200712041540.24458@centrum.cz> References: <200712041345.380@centrum.cz> <200712041540.24458@centrum.cz> Organization: Intel X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.0.2 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 04 Dec 2007 15:40:15 +0100 wrote: > > Hi Kernel Gurus, > > Please find kindly the description of EIP problems below. > I greatfully appreciate your kind help. > Hi, your oops is the first crash reported against generic_make_request in 2.6.18 (in fact, in the last year pretty much) so it's not a very common pattern. However, you're running a 2.6.18 kernel, which is really really old (and has many known security issues fixed since); it's probably a good idea to do a yum upgrade to get a more current kernel; fc6 ships something like a 2.6.22 or 2.6.23 nowadays as update... Greetings, Arjan van de Ven -- If you want to reach me at my work email, use arjan@linux.intel.com For development, discussion and tips for power savings, visit http://www.lesswatts.org