From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
To: andrew2.li@citigroup.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RHEL4 kernel-2.6.9-42.0.2.EL
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:35:19 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <469EA3B7.2040201@shaw.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fa.L02b3ieT1leTgLLxb/wPJjqu77k@ifi.uio.no>
Andrew Li wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I have a strange problem with cron, it is doing a segfault every minute.
> This problem happened out of the blue, according to authlog no users
> have logged onto the system in between the time it last worked and the
> time it began to fail.
>
> The error messages from messages file is :
> Jul 18 16:16:01 host100 kernel: crond[29540]: segfault at
> 0000000000000000 rip 0000000000000000 rsp 0000007fbffbf018 error 14
>
> Looking at arch/x86_64/mm/fault.c, this happens when a user proc is
> trying to access memory thats not in its memory map. But the address
> reported in messages doesn't match /proc/pid/maps.
>
> Does anyone have any idea what this might be?
Looks like it's jumping to a null address. Presumably a cron bug.
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