Hi I reproducibly get the following Oops as soon as I start using inotify with gamin and/or beagle. This happens with linux 2.6.10-as1 + inotify 0.18-rml-4 on multiple x86 machines.
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000 printing eip: c01d6d31 *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP Modules linked in: nfs lockd sunrpc mga af_packet autofs4 md5 ipv6 e100 mii snd_cmipci snd_opl3_lib snd_hwdep snd_mpu401_uart snd_rawmidi snd_seq_device intel_agp agpgart snd_intel8x0 snd_ac97_codec tun snd_pcm_oss snd_pcm snd_timer snd_page_alloc snd_mixer_oss snd soundcore ext3 jbd mbcache binfmt_misc xfs sd_mod pl2303 usbserial ide_cd cdrom ide_disk aic7xxx scsi_mod piix ide_core ehci_hcd uhci_hcd usbcore CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[inotify_dev_queue_event+353/368] Not tainted VLI EFLAGS: 00010246 (2.6.10-paldo4) EIP is at inotify_dev_queue_event+0x161/0x170 eax: 00000000 ebx: d7a50f00 ecx: 00000003 edx: c6c7a2cc esi: 00000000 edi: 00000000 ebp: 00000020 esp: c8b6bf6c ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Process multiload-apple (pid: 2756, threadinfo=c8b6a000 task=e76bc020) Stack: c014b27d 00000000 00000000 00000000 ddc822e8 ddc822e8 cbda31ac 00000000 00000020 c01d72c9 00000000 00000000 00000024 d8dd3980 f7772000 c8b6a000 c015826f 00000000 b777e8fc b777e8fc 00008000 c0103029 b777e8fc 00000000 Call Trace: [remove_vm_struct+93/144] remove_vm_struct+0x5d/0x90 [inotify_inode_queue_event+73/128] inotify_inode_queue_event+0x49/0x80 [sys_open+95/176] sys_open+0x5f/0xb0 [sysenter_past_esp+82/117] sysenter_past_esp+0x52/0x75 Code: 24 18 8b 7c 24 1c 8b 6c 24 20 83 c4 24 c3 c7 04 24 00 00 00 00 8b 4c 24 0c ba 00 40 00 00 b8 ff ff ff ff e9 3d ff ff ff 8b 42 18 <80> 38 00 eb bf 8d 76 00 8d bc 27 00 00 00 00 53 89 c3 8b 4b 20 <6>note: multiload-apple[2756] exited with preempt_count 1 I can provide more information on request. Thanks for any advice JÃrg (please cc me on replies) -- Juerg Billeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/