linux-kernel - Re: EIP problem (kernel: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer)

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Message-ID: <20071204073729.212c2b3f@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
Date:	Tue, 4 Dec 2007 07:37:29 -0800
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	<tovarekl@...trum.cz>
Cc:	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: EIP problem (kernel: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer)

On Tue, 04 Dec 2007 15:40:15 +0100
<tovarekl@...trum.cz> wrote:

> 
> Hi Kernel Gurus,
> 
> Please find kindly the description of EIP problems below.
> I greatfully appreciate your kind help.
> 

Hi,

your oops is the first crash reported against generic_make_request in
2.6.18 (in fact, in the last year pretty much) so it's not a very
common pattern. However, you're running a 2.6.18 kernel, which is
really really old (and has many known security issues fixed since);
it's probably a good idea to do a yum upgrade to get a more current
kernel; fc6 ships something like a 2.6.22 or 2.6.23 nowadays as
update...

Greetings,
   Arjan van de Ven
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