linux-kernel - v2.6.26: Bad EIP value at shutdown

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Date:	Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:44:18 +0200
From:	"Vegard Nossum" <vegard.nossum@...il.com>
To:	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: v2.6.26: Bad EIP value at shutdown

Hi,

My apologies for the bad report, I just got this when shutting down a
v2.6.26, and with no camera at hand, I wrote down what I could see:

The last line of the stack dump contained the number 0xfee1dead, which
I assume is some kind of magic number.

The stacktrace:

notifier_call_chain
_cpu_down
disable_nonboot_cpus
acpi_clear_gpe_block
kernel_power_off
sys_reboot

Code: Bad EIP value

So a NULL-pointer call.


Vegard

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