Bug#380188: linux-image-2.6.17-1-686: NULL pointer dereference
Package: linux-image-2.6.17-1-686
Severity: normal
Hello,
the kernel crashes during boot with the following messages:
INIT: version 2.86 booting
Starting the hotplug events dispatcher: udevd.
Synthesizing the initial hotplug events...done.
Waiting for /dev to be fully populated...Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
00:0a: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
00:0b: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input1
parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 5
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0e.0[A] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
gameport: ES1938 is pci0000:00:0e.0/gameport0, io 0xf400, speed 1065kHz
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac
Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected an Intel 440BX Chipset.
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xf8000000
piix4_smbus 0000:00:07.3: Found 0000:00:07.3 device
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/16x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
sr 0:0:3:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 5
input: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse as /class/input/input2
ts: Compaq touchscreen protocol output
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive.
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive.
Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive.
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000c
printing eip:
b01fff1a
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000 [#1]
SMP
Modules linked in: shpchp pci_hotplug mousedev tsdev sg evdev i2c_piix4 sr_mod i2c_core intel_agp agpgart rtc psmouse snd_es1938 parport_pc serio_raw gameport parport snd_pcm snd_page_alloc snd_opl3_lib snd_timer snd_hwdep snd_mpu401_uart snd_rawmidi snd_seq_device pcspkr snd 8250_pnp floppy soundcore ext3 jbd mbcache ide_generic ide_cd cdrom ide_disk sd_mod piix uhci_hcd usbcore 3c59x mii generic ide_core aic7xxx scsi_transport_spi scsi_mod thermal processor fan
CPU: 0
EIP: 0060:[<b01fff1a>] Not tainted VLI
EFLAGS: 00010206 (2.6.17-1-686 #1)
EIP is at uart_write_room+0x9/0x16
eax: bf5ff400 ebx: 00000006 ecx: bf6e6a50 edx: 00000000
esi: bf6ad000 edi: bf23f000 ebp: 00000006 esp: bf7aff18
ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068
Process S03udev (pid: 1924, threadinfo=bf7ae000 task=bf6e6a50)
Stack: b01f4205 bf23f000 bf4d22a0 b01f0433 00000000 bf6e6a50 b0116b57 bf6ad138
bf6ad138 00000006 bf6ad000 00000006 00000006 b01f1e6a 00000006 080e9408
bf4d22a0 b01f4124 00000000 bf6ad00c bf6ad3e8 b01f27fb bf4d22a0 bf4d22a0
Call Trace:
<b01f4205> write_chan+0xe1/0x293 <b01f0433> tty_ldisc_try+0x2e/0x33
<b0116b57> default_wake_function+0x0/0xc <b01f1e6a> tty_write+0x147/0x1d8
<b01f4124> write_chan+0x0/0x293 <b01f27fb> redirected_tty_write+0x1c/0x6c
<b01f27df> redirected_tty_write+0x0/0x6c <b0153099> vfs_write+0xa1/0x140
<b0153683> sys_write+0x3c/0x63 <b0102b4f> syscall_call+0x7/0xb
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: [<b01fff1a>] uart_write_room+0x9/0x16 SS:ESP 0068:bf7aff18
After that, the system hangs.
I've downgraded to 2.6.16-2-686, it works.
With kind regards,
Baurzhan.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-1-k7
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
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