Was using vpnc due to unhappiness with cipe over the weekend and got the following oops from the tun code general protection fault: 3cfc tun cmpci soundcore parport_pc lp parport nfsd lockd sunrpc iptable_filter ip_tables cipcb tulip sg sr_mod cdrom loop keybdev mousedev hid input usb-uhci usbc CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[<ca5515f7>] Not tainted EFLAGS: 00010282 EIP is at ___strtok_R29805c13 [] 0xa17ff7b (2.4.20-2.48) eax: e045e02a ebx: ca5515c0 ecx: d0d76080 edx: ca5515c0 esi: dd5f97d0 edi: d9b87b00 ebp: 00000068 esp: dd035da4 ds: 0068 es: 0068 ss: 0068 Process vpnc (pid: 3622, stackpage=dd035000) Stack: 00000068 00c03cfe c0207db8 ca5515c0 dd5f97d0 00000000 00000068 00000000 0207926f 00000020 00000040 c567da40 fffffff3 00000068 00000000 fce9bb42 c02213eb ca5515c0 c0221100 dd035e2c 00000068 dd035e3c d0d76080 00000000 Call Trace: [<c0207db8>] ip_build_xmit [kernel] 0x26c (0xdd035dac)) [<c02213eb>] raw_sendmsg [kernel] 0x20f (0xdd035de4)) [<c0221100>] raw_getrawfrag [kernel] 0x0 (0xdd035dec)) [<c0229612>] inet_sendmsg [kernel] 0x42 (0xdd035e5c)) [<c01e78c4>] sock_sendmsg [kernel] 0x78 (0xdd035e70)) [<c01e88df>] sys_sendto [kernel] 0xe3 (0xdd035eb4)) [<c019c878>] account_io_end [kernel] 0x2c (0xdd035eec)) [<c01c3291>] start_request [kernel] 0x1c5 (0xdd035f04)) [<c01c33fa>] ide_do_request [kernel] 0xa6 (0xdd035f40)) [<c01ca7b0>] ide_dma_intr [kernel] 0x0 (0xdd035f6c)) [<c01e9219>] sys_socketcall [kernel] 0x18d (0xdd035f80)) [<c01093b3>] system_call [kernel] 0x33 (0xdd035fc0)) Code: ca ff ff 00 00 b0 e6 ee d3 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 16 55 <1>Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 000000d0 printing eip: c01ffc90 *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 tun cmpci soundcore parport_pc lp parport nfsd lockd sunrpc iptable_filter ip_tables cipcb tulip sg sr_mod cdrom loop keybdev mousedev hid input usb-uhci usbc CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[<c01ffc90>] Not tainted EFLAGS: 00010206 EIP is at rt_run_flush [kernel] 0x60 (2.4.20-2.48) eax: 00000000 ebx: 000000c0 ecx: 00000b5f edx: 000000c0 esi: 00000ace edi: 00000002 ebp: da5b1c40 esp: dd035c4c ds: 0068 es: 0068 ss: 0068 Process vpnc (pid: 3622, stackpage=dd035000) Stack: d0d76080 dde0bc24 dde0bc24 c022c08b 00000000 dde0bc24 00000000 c03419e0 c022c1b7 dde0bc24 00000000 c03419e0 dde0bc24 c0127bdd c03419e0 00000002 dde0bc24 dde0bc24 dde0bc24 cad94540 c01ef065 c033f280 00000002 dde0bc24 Call Trace: [<c022c08b>] fib_disable_ip [kernel] 0x33 (0xdd035c58)) [<c022c1b7>] fib_netdev_event [kernel] 0x97 (0xdd035c6c)) [<c0127bdd>] notifier_call_chain [kernel] 0x31 (0xdd035c80)) [<c01ef065>] dev_close [kernel] 0xad (0xdd035c9c)) [<e0a0aa09>] tun_chr_close [tun] 0xb9 (0xdd035cb4)) [<c0144b32>] fput [kernel] 0x102 (0xdd035ccc)) [<c01431dd>] filp_close [kernel] 0x4d (0xdd035ce8)) [<c011e28c>] put_files_struct [kernel] 0x6c (0xdd035d00)) [<c011e960>] do_exit [kernel] 0x100 (0xdd035d1c)) [<c0109e24>] do_general_protection [kernel] 0x0 (0xdd035d30)) [<c0109a70>] do_divide_error [kernel] 0x0 (0xdd035d38)) [<c0109e75>] do_general_protection [kernel] 0x51 (0xdd035d4c)) [<c01094a4>] error_code [kernel] 0x34 (0xdd035d64)) [<c0207db8>] ip_build_xmit [kernel] 0x26c (0xdd035dac)) [<c02213eb>] raw_sendmsg [kernel] 0x20f (0xdd035de4)) [<c0221100>] raw_getrawfrag [kernel] 0x0 (0xdd035dec)) [<c0229612>] inet_sendmsg [kernel] 0x42 (0xdd035e5c)) [<c01e78c4>] sock_sendmsg [kernel] 0x78 (0xdd035e70)) [<c01e88df>] sys_sendto [kernel] 0xe3 (0xdd035eb4)) [<c019c878>] account_io_end [kernel] 0x2c (0xdd035eec)) [<c01c3291>] start_request [kernel] 0x1c5 (0xdd035f04)) [<c01c33fa>] ide_do_request [kernel] 0xa6 (0xdd035f40)) [<c01ca7b0>] ide_dma_intr [kernel] 0x0 (0xdd035f6c)) [<c01e9219>] sys_socketcall [kernel] 0x18d (0xdd035f80)) [<c01093b3>] system_call [kernel] 0x33 (0xdd035fc0)) Code: 83 7a 10 01 8b 1a 7e 0d 85 db 89 da 75 f2 4e 79 af 58 5b 5e
Haven't seen this in ages.