oops with 2.4.8-pre5

[Alex Romosan]

i got the following oops with kernel 2.4.8-pre5. i was just logged in
remotely, reading email with gnus and maybe i had just run dselect
(debian package installer):

ksymoops 2.4.1 on i686 2.4.8-pre5.  Options used
     -V (default)
     -k /proc/ksyms (default)
     -l /proc/modules (default)
     -o /lib/modules/2.4.8-pre5/ (default)
     -m /boot/System.map-2.4.8-pre5 (specified)

Aug  7 12:47:26 caliban kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000001c
Aug  7 12:47:26 caliban kernel: c01311c9
Aug  7 12:47:26 caliban kernel: *pde = 00000000
Aug  7 12:47:26 caliban kernel: Oops: 0000
Aug  7 12:47:26 caliban kernel: CPU:    0
Aug  7 12:47:26 caliban kernel: EIP:    0010:[sync_old_buffers+41/76]
Aug  7 12:47:26 caliban kernel: EFLAGS: 00010286
Aug  7 12:47:26 caliban kernel: eax: 0009c42b   ebx: cff20000   ecx: 00000200   edx: 00000000
Aug  7 12:47:26 caliban kernel: esi: c0259357   edi: cff2023b   ebp: 0008e000   esp: cff21fe0
Aug  7 12:47:26 caliban kernel: ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018
Aug  7 12:47:26 caliban kernel: Process kupdated (pid: 7, stackpage=cff21000)
Aug  7 12:47:26 caliban kernel: Stack: c0131425 00010f00 cff39fb0 c02e34a8 c0105454 c02e34a8 00000078 c02d1fc0 
Aug  7 12:47:26 caliban kernel: Call Trace: [kupdate+205/208] [kernel_thread+40/56] 
Aug  7 12:47:26 caliban kernel: Code: 2b 42 1c 79 e2 89 f6 81 3d 80 4f 2c c0 80 4f 2c c0 74 0d 68 
Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386 -a i386

Code;  00000000 Before first symbol
00000000 <_EIP>:
Code;  00000000 Before first symbol
   0:   2b 42 1c                  sub    0x1c(%edx),%eax
Code;  00000003 Before first symbol
   3:   79 e2                     jns    ffffffe7 <_EIP+0xffffffe7> ffffffe7 <END_OF_CODE+2f4e6e48/????>
Code;  00000005 Before first symbol
   5:   89 f6                     mov    %esi,%esi
Code;  00000007 Before first symbol
   7:   81 3d 80 4f 2c c0 80      cmpl   $0xc02c4f80,0xc02c4f80
Code;  0000000e Before first symbol
   e:   4f 2c c0 
Code;  00000011 Before first symbol
  11:   74 0d                     je     20 <_EIP+0x20> 00000020 Before first symbol
Code;  00000013 Before first symbol
  13:   68 00 00 00 00            push   $0x0

--alex--

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