Description of Problem:

Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000286
 printing eip:
c011de58
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000
CPU:    0
EIP:    0010:[<c011de58>]    Not tainted
EFLAGS: 00010046
eax: 00000000   ebx: c2a8c000   ecx: 00000000   edx: 00000000
esi: 00000020   edi: 00000286   ebp: c15dff3c   esp: c15dfee0
ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018
Process named (pid: 32086, stackpage=c15df000)
Stack: 00000020 c15dff3c c2a8c000 00007d55 bf7ffc00 403f5044 bf5ffa34 c011e0bd
       00000020 c15dff3c c2a8c000 c15dff30 c0106de5 00000020 c27e3d10 00007d55
       bf7ffc00 403f5044 bf5ffa34 c011e859 00000020 c15dff3c 00007d55 00000020
Call Trace: [<c011e0bd>] kill_something_info [kernel] 0xdd
[<c0106de5>] do_signal [kernel] 0x245
[<c011e859>] sys_kill [kernel] 0x49
[<c0112e4b>] schedule_timeout [kernel] 0x8b
[<c0112d70>] process_timeout [kernel] 0x0
[<c0106384>] sys_sigreturn [kernel] 0xc4
[<c0118faa>] sys_gettimeofday [kernel] 0x1a
[<c0106f23>] system_call [kernel] 0x33

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

2.4.9-13 - i586 RPM

Additional Information:

This occurred after about 59 days uptime on my home gateway (P133).