On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Matt Mackall wrote: > On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 09:36:37PM -0700, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: > > I'm having trouble booting here, were those random-* patches tested? > > > > EIP is at __add_entropy_words+0xc5/0x1c0 > > eax: 0000002d ebx: 0000000f ecx: 0000007b edx: f5e50000 > > esi: c0810980 edi: 0000000f ebp: f5e4fea4 esp: f5e4fe5c > > ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 > > Process dd (pid: 2255, threadinfo=f5e4e000 task=ebdd7ac0) > > Stack: 00000010 78000000 c07043e0 00000286 0000007b 0000001f 00000001 > > 00000007 > > 0000000e 00000014 0000001a 00000000 0000002d f5e50000 c07043c0 > > 00000080 > > c0704340 c07043c0 f5e4ff40 c037a4e0 00000000 00000010 2cda69d0 > > f7b9f75e > > Call Trace: > > [<c010403a>] show_stack+0x7a/0x90 > > [<c01041c6>] show_registers+0x156/0x1c0 > > [<c01043e0>] die+0x100/0x190 > > [<c0116d59>] do_page_fault+0x349/0x63f > > [<c0103cc7>] error_code+0x2b/0x30 > > [<c037a4e0>] xfer_secondary_pool+0xb0/0xe0 > > This oops is add_entropy_words running off the top of the stack > reading its input. The overrun is harmless until it causes a page > fault. After much staring: > > This should fix Zwane's oops. Looks like I introduced this bug in Aug > 2003, but it was hard to trigger until the recent changes. But it > ought to make it to mainline soonish.
Thanks Matt, that fixes it. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
