On Mon, 2006-12-11 12:06:08 +0100, Tom Kerremans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I 'm the maintainter of Trinity Rescue Kit (http://trinityhome.org/trk) , > a live rescue distribution that tries (amongst many other features) to be > as generic as possible in terms of hardware detection. Therefore I include > all network and disk controller drivers in the kernel or as module. > I recently tried kernel 2.6.19 and stumbled upon the fact that the module > DEPCA seems to be broken. When I compile it in the kernel, the kernel > crashes at boot time. Compiled as module it creates a segmentation fault > on modprobe. > I 've tested compilation on two different systems: first is my TRK > workbench, which is a Mandriva 2005 with gcc 3.4.3-7mdk and > module-init-tools 3.0 (later upgraded to 3.2.2, recompiled kernel, but > same result). The other system I compiled and tried it on is an > out-of-the-box Mandriva 2007, which is quite new and has more recent > compilers and libraries. The result was the same. > When I do a "modprobe depca", even though there is no hardware that could > use this module (it 's for old DEC nics..), I get the following output: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# modprobe depca > Segmentation fault > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]#
Please use `dmesg' the next time to generate output and don't cut'n'paste it if this adds extra \n into the output. Just reworked your stuff to get it remotely readable: Kernel BUG at [verbose debug info unavailable] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[<c014b738>] Not tainted VLI EFLAGS: 00010006 (2.6.19 #2) EIP is at kfree+0x32/0x59 eax: ef632674 ebx: f64f7800 ecx: f64f7870 edx: c1800000 esi: 00000206 edi: 00000300 ebp: ea4a5e1c esp: ea4a5e10 ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Process modprobe (pid: 26866, ti=ea4a4000 task=c1a74a70 task.ti=ea4a4000) Stack: f64f7800 f64f7870 c0552580 ea4a5e2c c0279ecc 00000300 c05525dc ea4a5e44 c0275ccf f64f7808 ea4a5e44 c0275de3 f64f7870 ea4a5e60 c020d3a2 f64f7870 c05528c8 f64f7888 c020d3c9 00000000 ea4a5e6c c020d3dd f64f7870 ea4a5e8c Call Trace: [<c010317a>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x26/0x3c [<c010322b>] show_stack_log_lvl+0x9b/0xa3 [<c01035f6>] show_registers+0x18f/0x229 [<c01037ba>] die+0x12a/0x1ef [<c01038ff>] do_trap+0x80/0x88 [<c01040fa>] do_invalid_op+0xa0/0xaa [<c047f329>] error_code+0x39/0x40 [<c0279ecc>] platform_device_release+0x1b/0x35 [<c0275ccf>] device_release+0x2f/0x71 [<c020d3a2>] kobject_cleanup+0x49/0x70 [<c020d3dd>] kobject_release+0x14/0x16 [<c020df30>] kref_put+0x6a/0x78 [<c020d357>] kobject_put+0x20/0x22 [<c0275de3>] put_device+0x18/0x1a [<c0279efe>] platform_device_put+0x18/0x1a [<f8ac98a0>] depca_module_init+0x79/0xc4 [depca] [<c012be5a>] sys_init_module+0x1332/0x14b9 [<c0102c9d>] sysenter_past_esp+0x56/0x79 ======================= Code: 56 53 85 ff 74 47 9c 5e fa 8d 97 00 00 00 40 c1 ea 0c c1 e2 05 03 15 a0 26 68 c0 8b 02 f6 c4 40 74 03 8b 52 0c 8b 02 84 c0 78 02 <0f> 0b 8b 4a 18 8b 19 8b 03 3b 43 04 72 0b 89 c8 89 da e8 25 ff EIP: [<c014b738>] kfree+0x32/0x59 SS:ESP 0068:ea4a5e10 MfG, JBG -- Jan-Benedict Glaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] +49-172-7608481 Signature of: The real problem with C++ for kernel modules is: the language just sucks. the second : -- Linus Torvalds
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