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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor•org>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat•com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail•com>,
	netdev@vger•kernel.org,
	Fedora Kernel Team <kernel-team@fedoraproject•org>
Subject: Re: 3.5.1 fib_rules_lookup oops
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 13:35:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2zk5p7149.fsf@firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120820172240.GA378@redhat.com> (Dave Jones's message of "Mon, 20 Aug 2012 13:22:40 -0400")

Dave Jones <davej@redhat•com> writes:
>
> Same user reported a slew of other problems, so he may have bad hardware.
> I've asked him to run a memtest to rule that out.

Bad DIMM is unlikely to cause random ASCII in memory. That's more like a
bad DMA or a buffer overflow in some driver. I would look for a unique
driver that user is using.

-Andi

-- 
ak@linux•intel.com -- Speaking for myself only

      reply	other threads:[~2012-08-20 20:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-20 16:44 3.5.1 fib_rules_lookup oops Dave Jones
2012-08-20 16:59 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-08-20 17:22   ` Dave Jones
2012-08-20 20:35     ` Andi Kleen [this message]

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