Bug#593792: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffd17c8c (do_vfs_ioctl)

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Ben Hutchings wrote:

> The kernel image in the above package contains this machine code around
> the address of the faulting instruction:
>
>                       f2 ff ff ff e9 31 01 00 00 8b 40 0c 8b 58 10 e8
> 26 e3 1a 00 8b 83 a4 00 00 00 8b 4c 24 58 8b 40 0c e8 46 d1 07 00 e9
> fd 00 00 00 <8b> 43 0c 8b 70 10 0f b7 46 72 25 00 f0 00 00 3d 00 80 00
> 00 0f
>
> Notice that several bytes around the faulting instruction (<8b>) differ
> from this in the recorded 'oops'.  This indicates memory or filesystem
> corruption, possibly due to a hardware fault.

Thiemo, any news?  Were you able to convince this machine to behave
stably, and if so, how?