From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016 Description of problem: dmesg output shows this: Trying to vfree() nonexistent vm area (f8a52000) f13a1e9c c010828a bfffd380 bfffd320 f13a0664 80000000 f5820120 f13a0000 f13a0000 f13a0000 c011be98 f5820120 f5820120 c0120d4c f5820120 0000000b f13a066c d9efaef0 f13a1f50 c0126da3 c36b2934 d9efaecc f13a0000 0000000b Call Trace: [<c010828a>] setup_sigcontext [kernel] 0xda (0xf13a1ea0)) [<c011be98>] mmput [kernel] 0x38 (0xf13a1ec4)) [<c0120d4c>] do_exit [kernel] 0xdc (0xf13a1ed0)) [<c0126da3>] collect_signal [kernel] 0x93 (0xf13a1ee8)) [<c0108ab8>] do_signal [kernel] 0x228 (0xf13a1f18)) [<c0127200>] deliver_signal [kernel] 0x20 (0xf13a1f5c)) [<c011ce4b>] do_fork [kernel] 0x83b (0xf13a1f74)) [<c012703e>] ignored_signal [kernel] 0x2e (0xf13a1f78)) [<c01272e2>] send_sig_info [kernel] 0x82 (0xf13a1f88)) [<c01098d0>] do_general_protection [kernel] 0x0 (0xf13a1fa0)) [<c0127651>] force_sig [kernel] 0x11 (0xf13a1fa8)) [<c01098d0>] do_general_protection [kernel] 0x0 (0xf13a1fb8)) [<c0108cb4>] signal_return [kernel] 0x14 (0xf13a1fc0)) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Didn't try Additional info: this is a smp machine running with the latest errata smp kernel; 2.4.18-17.7.xsmp
I'm seeing this on dual-smp PIII with 2.4.18-18.8.0smp. It seems to happen if I tar x a large archive from my DLT80 tape drive.
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