Re: 2.4.4 Oops

Brian Gerst (bgerst@didntduck.org)
Mon, 30 Apr 2001 11:07:21 -0400


Frank van Maarseveen wrote:
>
> System is a dual PIII. Oops occurred while starting the automounter
> (autofs). starting it later on by hand again gave no oops anymore.

[snip]

> Code; c021b5f6 <__generic_copy_from_user+3a/64> <=====
> 0: f3 a5 repz movsl %ds:(%esi),%es:(%edi) <=====

There should be no way for this to cause an oops. There should be an
exception handler here that will catch the page fault and deal with it.
It appears that the exception table might be corrupted. What compiler
are you using?

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