Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:18:52 +0300 (EET DST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: crashme crashes 2.0.20 with guarantee :-( |
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On Fri, 20 Sep 1996, Topi Miettinen wrote: > > Yesterday I ran Tobotras' crashme-2.1 for 10 hours with: > nice -20 ./crashme +2000 1234 100 10:00:00 2 > I only now noticed the following oops in dmesg (the system is > still up and running!): > > warning: you are using an old insmod, no symbols will be inserted! > Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 00000000
Umm, you didn't run crashme as root, did you? The above certainly looks like that (bad arguments to the sys_init_module()" system call, but it should never get that far unless you're root).
Now, running crashme as root is "a bad idea". A _really_ bad idea.
Linus
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