kernel bug in 2.4.2-ac28, patched with 6.1.8 aic drivers

[John Jasen]

got this on booting up 2.4.2-ac28:
Apr  5 09:36:37 grim kernel: kernel BUG at slab.c:1244!
Apr  5 09:36:37 grim kernel: invalid operand: 0000
Apr  5 09:36:37 grim kernel: CPU:    0
Apr  5 09:36:37 grim kernel: EIP:    0010:[kmalloc+303/472]
Apr  5 09:36:37 grim kernel: EFLAGS: 00010086
Apr  5 09:36:37 grim kernel: eax: 0000001b   ebx: c1447768   ecx: c02900a0   edx: 000016ea
Apr  5 09:36:37 grim kernel: esi: cea5a000   edi: cea5a9aa   ebp: 00012800   esp: cf27de30
Apr  5 09:36:37 grim kernel: ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018
Apr  5 09:36:37 grim kernel: Process mingetty (pid: 672, stackpage=cf27d000)
Apr  5 09:36:37 grim kernel: Stack: c023a56b 000004dc c02ffae0 00000403 00000403 00000000 cea5a000 00001000
Apr  5 09:36:37 grim kernel:        00000015 00000246 c01b1dfe 00000c3c 00000007 c02ffae0 00000403 c01b2a6a
Apr  5 09:36:37 grim kernel:        00000000 00000000 cf011a30 cff0de74 00000001 cf27dee8 c0291080 cf27c000
Apr  5 09:36:37 grim kernel: Call Trace: [alloc_tty_struct+14/40] [init_dev+138/1088] [tty_open+475/944] [cached_l
ookup+16/84] [get_chrfops+106/232] [permission+43/48] [chrdev_open+64/76]
Apr  5 09:36:37 grim kernel:        [dentry_open+198/336] [filp_open+82/92] [sys_open+56/180] [system_call+51/56]
Apr  5 09:36:37 grim kernel:
Apr  5 09:36:37 grim kernel: Code: 0f 0b 83 c4 08 8b 6b 10 f7 c5 00 04 00
00 74 53 b8 a5 c2 0f

Console was half dead -- got the login prompt, but a whole lot of nothing
afterwards, but I was able to SysRQ-sync and reboot into another kernel.

This problem does not appear in 2.4.3-ac3, FWIW.

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