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From: "Segher Boessenkool" <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: "Oncaphillis" <oncaphillis@snafu.de>
Cc: "Xiaofan Chen" <xiaofanc@gmail.com>,
	libusb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	"Kernel development list" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Libusb-devel] Kernel bug message and missing data  on	libusb_interrupt_transfer
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 16:54:46 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56341.94.211.195.167.1302015286.squirrel@gate.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D9AE10E.3080501@snafu.de>

>> I'm in an environment where we are
>> reluctant to switch between versions. I had a hard time to

> Pid: 14293, comm: E25Stress Tainted: G      D    2.6.30.10 #2 To Be
> Filled By O.E.M.
> RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8028d2f8>]  [<ffffffff8028d2f8>] kfree+0x7c/0xdb

> Suprisingly now the kernel is reported as tainted although there isn't
> any module inserted the

That is not true; "G" means you have loaded a (GPL-compatible) module.
"D" means the kernel died.  It died because it tried to dealloc memory
using a bad pointer, perhaps a null pointer.

Your kernel is two years old, you should try a current kernel.


Segher


  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-04-05 14:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-04 12:14 Oncaphillis
2011-04-04 13:06 ` [Libusb-devel] " Xiaofan Chen
2011-04-04 13:31   ` Oncaphillis
2011-04-05  9:29     ` Oncaphillis
2011-04-05 14:13       ` Alan Stern
2011-04-05 14:21         ` Oncaphillis
2011-04-05 14:42           ` Alan Stern
2011-04-06 10:37             ` Oncaphillis
2011-04-08  9:07               ` Oncaphillis
2011-04-08 10:09                 ` Xiaofan Chen
2011-04-08 14:37                 ` Alan Stern
2011-04-05 14:54       ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
2011-04-05 15:15         ` Oncaphillis

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