Bug 853450 - wrong pointer passed to mmap64() caused kernel panic
Summary: wrong pointer passed to mmap64() caused kernel panic
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Status: CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: kernel
Version: 5.1
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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high
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Red Hat Kernel Manager
QA Contact: Red Hat Kernel QE team
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Reported: 2012-08-31 15:06 UTC by Jacek Suchenia
Modified: 2012-09-03 07:30 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2012-09-03 07:30:57 UTC
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Description Jacek Suchenia 2012-08-31 15:06:22 UTC 
Description of problem:
During port of our code to Linux 64-bit we made a small mistake in SMBIOS data extraction. Failure in our application caused kpanic

More details: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/13556933/kpanic-wscanhw.txt

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https://dl.dropbox.com/u/13556933/kpanic-wscanhw.txt

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