linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.25-git2: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffffffffffffff

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Message-Id: <20080424.185757.254044977.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:57:57 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	jirislaby@...il.com, zdenek.kabelac@...il.com, mingo@...e.hu,
	rjw@...k.pl, paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, herbert@...dor.apana.org.au,
	penberg@...helsinki.fi, clameter@....com
Subject: Re: 2.6.25-git2: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at
 ffffffffffffffff

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:48:32 -0700 (PDT)

> But that 0xf0 definitely has shown up before. It's not the *only* 
> corruption, but it's definitely a very interesting pattern. And the other 
> ones that didn't show the 0xf0 pattern could obviously be due to pointers 
> that were corrupted by 0xf0 in low bytes, so it _may_ be the source of the 
> other corruptions too that didn't have an obvious 0xf0 directly in them.

Ok.

Do we know of any pattern of the wireless device type in use?
If there is a pattern to that, it would be a huge clue.

And if it is predominantly one particular wireless device type, we
should be able to come up with a patch to test.
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