Description of problem: Did find /proc -name '*ecn*' which resulted in find segfaulting and then getting a kernel traceback. This was a IBM T40p laptop and ACPI is turned on. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.6.1-1.47 How reproducible: Seems to be rather reliably reproduceable. Steps to Reproduce: 1. find /proc -name '*ecn*' 2. 3. Actual results: proc_iget: using deleted entry e, count=1 de_put: deferred delete of e Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 6b6b6b6d printing eip: c01bbb00 *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 [#1] CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[<c01bbb00>] Not tainted EFLAGS: 00010202 EIP is at proc_lookup+0x40/0xc0 eax: ec8ad7f4 ebx: 6b6b6b6b ecx: e3217f78 edx: 00006b6b esi: fffffff4 edi: ec8ad874 ebp: 00000002 esp: e3217e98 ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Process find (pid: 4406, threadinfo=e3216000 task=e68b8920) Stack: fffffffe 00000000 e25d3190 ec8ad7f4 c0367d20 fffffff4 ec8ad874 ec8ad7f4 c0188083 e25d3190 e3217f78 e3217f20 00000000 e3217f78 e3217f18 e3217f20 c018847e f7fb780c e3217f20 f27c9002 00000000 ec8ad7f4 c0188b01 00000000 Call Trace: [<c0188083>] real_lookup+0xd3/0x100 [<c018847e>] do_lookup+0x7e/0x90 [<c0188b01>] link_path_walk+0x671/0xcc0 [<c0183388>] cp_new_stat64+0x118/0x130 [<c0189af8>] open_namei+0x88/0x410 [<c01743dd>] filp_open+0x2d/0x60 [<c0174b2d>] sys_open+0x4d/0x80 [<c010c4cf>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb Code: 0f b7 53 02 39 ea 74 3d 8b 5b 28 85 db 75 f1 8b 4c 24 04 85 Expected results: Definetly not a segfault ;-) Additional info: Would this be the problem fixed by arjan in his kernel released Jan 17th?
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 113555 ***
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.