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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Fede <fedux@lugmen.org.ar>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bad pmd ffff810000207238(9090909090909090).
Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 21:09:24 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080527210924.0537cb44@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <483CBCDD.10401@lugmen.org.ar>

On Tue, 27 May 2008 23:01:01 -0300
Fede <fedux@lugmen.org.ar> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Today I tried to start a firewalling script and failed due to an 
> unrelated issue, but when I checked the log I saw this:
> 
> May 27 20:38:15 kaoz ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
> May 27 20:38:28 kaoz Netfilter messages via NETLINK v0.30.
> May 27 20:38:28 kaoz nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (16384 buckets, 65536
> max) May 27 20:38:28 kaoz ctnetlink v0.93: registering with nfnetlink.
> May 27 20:38:28 kaoz ClusterIP Version 0.8 loaded successfully
> May 27 20:38:28 kaoz mm/memory.c:127: bad pmd 
> ffff810000207238(9090909090909090).


909090 is asm for "nop nop nop", a pattern often used in rootkits to
deal with slightly unknown memory locations



I would REALLY REALLY strongly suggest that you check for rootkits and
the like on your system...



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  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-28  4:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-28  2:01 Fede
2008-05-28  4:09 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2008-05-28 18:36 ` [PATCH] " Hugh Dickins
2008-05-28 18:40   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-28 19:56   ` Willy Tarreau
2008-05-28 20:14     ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-05-28 20:43       ` Willy Tarreau
2008-05-28 21:24         ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-05-28 22:20         ` Hugh Dickins

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