Re: system lockups and shutdowns fo running processes

[Randy.Dunlap]

On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Richard B. Johnson wrote:

| On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Thorsten Mika wrote:
|
| > "Randy.Dunlap" <[e-mail]> schrieb:
| >
| > > On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Thorsten Mika wrote:
| >
| > [output of dmesg]
| >
| > >
| > > Please run that Oops text thru ksymoops so that it makes some sense.
| >
| >
| > here it is:
| > 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.22
| > CPU:    0
| > EIP:    0010:[<c3130187>]    Not tainted
| > Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386 -a i386
| > EFLAGS: 00013206
| > eax: 00000008   ebx: 00000001   ecx: c2059920   edx: 00001000
| > esi: c2059920   edi: 0000000a   ebp: 00000005   esp: c116bf30
| > ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018
| > Process kupdated (pid: 7, stackpage=c116b000)
| > Stack: c2059920 c2059920 c0c8dce0 c012f5b4 c2059920 c116a000 c0211a17
| > c116a24b
| >        0008e000 00000036 c19c0a40 c340b740 c32bd840 c38ee740 c18b0ea0
| > c2ff2500
| >        c3e95d80 c3a25d20 c11cc8c0 c3a35aa0 c1ed4600 c1ed49c0 c3f530c0
| > c27b4600
| > Call Trace: [<c012f5b4>] [<c0131c47>] [<c0131eb5>] [<c010546c>]
| > Code: 07 20 07 20 07 20 07 20 07 20 07 20 07 20 07 20 07 20 07 20
| >
|
| Yawn.  It's trying to execute data...
| <TAB><SPC><TAB><SPC><TAB><SPC>..........
| Possible stack overflow.

Yes, I saw the hex 20 07 20 07 20 07 ... and realized that it shouldn't
be executing there.  The question is "how did it get there?".

-- 
~Randy
  "I read part of it all the way through." -- Samuel Goldwyn