Hi, I ran into this while playing with jprobes in 2.6.10.
I tried to install jprobe handler on a invalid address, I get OOPS. I was hoping for a error check and a graceful exit rather than kernel Oops. Thanks, Badari plant jprobe at 00000000c01836b0, handler addr ffffffffa0000080 Unable to handle kernel paging request at 00000000c01836b0 RIP: <ffffffff8026e622>{__memcpy+114} PML4 17d6cf067 PGD 0 Oops: 0000 [1] SMP CPU 1 Modules linked in: diotest Pid: 14225, comm: insmod Not tainted 2.6.10n RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8026e622>] <ffffffff8026e622>{__memcpy+114} RSP: 0018:000001019b841d58 EFLAGS: 00010047 RAX: ffffff0000a70000 RBX: 00000101bfa44200 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: 000000000000000f RSI: 00000000c01836b0 RDI: ffffff0000a70000 RBP: ffffffffa00008e0 R08: 0000010180000000 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 00000101bfa44218 R11: 0000000000000111 R12: 0000000000000216 R13: ffffffff804f1440 R14: 0000000000000020 R15: 0000000000000002 FS: 0000002a9588e6e0(0000) GS:ffffffff80628800(0000) knlGS:0000000055970080 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b CR2: 00000000c01836b0 CR3: 00000001a072c000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 Process insmod (pid: 14225, threadinfo 000001019b840000, task 00000101bf9394e0) Stack: 00000101bfa44200 ffffffff8011edcc 0000000000000212 ffffffffa00008e0 00000000ffffffef ffffffff80158542 ffffffff804f1480 ffffffffa0000940 ffffffff804f1440 ffffffffa000005c Call Trace:<ffffffff8011edcc>{arch_prepare_kprobe+300} <ffffffff80158542>{register_kprobe+82} <ffffffffa000005c>{:diotest:init_dmods+44} <ffffffff80150823>{sys_init_module+6387} <ffffffff8015e9c0>{__pagevec_free+32} <ffffffff8016490e>{release_pages+382} <ffffffff8016d4e6>{do_munmap+918} <ffffffff803ebb11>{__down_read+49} <ffffffff8026bc90>{__up_write+48} <ffffffff8010e4ce>{system_call+126} Code: 4c 8b 06 4c 89 07 48 8d 7f 08 48 8d 76 08 75 ee 89 d1 83 e1 RIP <ffffffff8026e622>{__memcpy+114} RSP <000001019b841d58> CR2: 00000000c01836b0 - 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/