Subject: Re: appletalk bugs

From: Gabriel C <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:10:46 +0200

Nick wrote:
[ restoring CC ]

> Fascinating ... Are you using chooser or NetInfo?

No I don't.

I fact I don't even know why that module got loaded. 

> On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 16:19 +0200, Gabriel C wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> modprobing appletalk on current git gives a warning in dmesg :
>>
>> [38506.600269] sysctl table check failed: /net/appletalk .3.7 procname does not match binary path procname
>>
>> on rmmod appletalk I get an Oops :
>>
>>
>> [38541.525258] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000c
>> [38541.525266] printing eip: c011d4f0 *pde = 00000000 
>> [38541.525274] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP 
>> [38541.525282] Modules linked in: appletalk psnap llc pc87360 hwmon_vid eeprom adm1021 sr_mod shpchp pci_hotplug iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support intel_agp i82860_edac i2c_i801 edac_core cdrom agpgart 3c59x mii ext4dev jbd2 crc16 loop lp parport_pc parport evdev
>> [38541.525312] 
>> [38541.525316] Pid: 28887, comm: rmmod Not tainted (2.6.23-gcfa76f02 #341)
>> [38541.525321] EIP: 0060:[<c011d4f0>] EFLAGS: 00010202 CPU: 0
>> [38541.525334] EIP is at unregister_sysctl_table+0x11/0x70
>> [38541.525339] EAX: 00000001 EBX: e8ef2180 ECX: 00000002 EDX: 00000000
>> [38541.525343] ESI: 00000000 EDI: 00000880 EBP: cc094000 ESP: cc095f38
>> [38541.525347]  DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0033 SS: 0068
> 
>> [38541.525389] Call Trace:
>> [38541.525395]  [<e8eed5b1>] atalk_exit+0x5/0x4b [appletalk]
>> [38541.525410]  [<c01353b2>] sys_delete_module+0x187/0x1b5
>> [38541.525420]  [<c01101fd>] do_page_fault+0x18b/0x51a
>> [38541.525426]  [<c0148684>] do_munmap+0x19b/0x1b4
>> [38541.525437]  [<c01026fa>] sysenter_past_esp+0x5f/0x85
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