| lists.openwall.net | lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC | |
|
Open Source and information security mailing list archives
| ||
|
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 12:59:57 -0500 From: Jay Cliburn <jacliburn@...lsouth.net> To: "Jay L. T. Cornwall" <jay@...na.co.uk> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.22-rc5: pdflush oops under heavy disk load On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 13:14:40 +0100 "Jay L. T. Cornwall" <jay@...na.co.uk> wrote: > The common factor here seems to be the buffer_head circular list > leading to invalid pointers in bh->b_this_page. > > I'm beginning to suspect the Attansic L1 Gigabit Etherner driver > (marked as EXPERIMENTAL in 2.6.22-rc5). I can't reproduce these > panics on disk-to-disk copies or SCP across the localhost interface. > However, SCP from a server onto either of two different HDDs hits > these oopses fairly quickly. How much RAM is installed in your machine? If it's 4GB or more, does your problem go away if you boot with mem=3000M? Jay - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Powered by blists - more mailing lists