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


On Thu, 24 Apr 2008, David Miller wrote:
>
> So the clue is setting some byte at ((offset % 8) == 0) into a
> structure with 0xf0...

It's not always at (offset % 8) == 0. We've seen that 0xf0 pattern in
other oopses, but it's not always 8-byte aligned. In fact, when we've seen
it in oopses, it has generally been in the higher bytes (eg offset 5
within a 64-bit word, causing an invalid pointer on x86-64).

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.

Linus


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