I get an oops when issuing the above command while pppd is
running. I am using PPPoE. I also use Robert Love's configurable
HZ patch with HZ=1000.
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 000000e8 
f0924b7b 
*pde = 00000000 
Oops: 0002 
CPU:    0 
EIP:    0010:[<f0924b7b>]    Not tainted 
EFLAGS: 00010286 
eax: ef8db340   ebx: ef1cd6c0   ecx: c02abf48   edx: 00000000 
esi: ef8db340   edi: 00000000   ebp: ef0a3ef4   esp: ef0a3ebc 
ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018 
Process pppd (pid: 97, stackpage=ef0a3000) 
Stack: 00007a12 ef8db36a ef0a3ef4 0000001e ef06ad94 ef0a3ef4 0000001e bffffa28  
       c01fdbad ef06ad94 ef0a3ef4 0000001e 00000002 00000000 00000018 00000000  
       401a9000 7465ed04 23003068 702f4018 73726565 ef9a642f 00000286 c0205ec9  
Call Trace:    [sys_connect+125/176] [unregister_netdevice+361/544] [fcntl_setlk+137/448] [sys_socketcall+167/608] [system_call+51/56] 
Code: ff 8a e8 00 00 00 0f 94 c0 84 c0 75 24 89 34 24 c7 44 24 04  
>>EIP; f0924b7b <[pppoe]pppoe_connect+1cb/220>   <=====
Code;  f0924b7b <[pppoe]pppoe_connect+1cb/220>
00000000 <_EIP>:
Code;  f0924b7b <[pppoe]pppoe_connect+1cb/220>   <=====
   0:   ff 8a e8 00 00 00         decl   0xe8(%edx)   <=====
Code;  f0924b81 <[pppoe]pppoe_connect+1d1/220>
   6:   0f 94 c0                  sete   %al
Code;  f0924b84 <[pppoe]pppoe_connect+1d4/220>
   9:   84 c0                     test   %al,%al
Code;  f0924b86 <[pppoe]pppoe_connect+1d6/220>
   b:   75 24                     jne    31 <_EIP+0x31>
Code;  f0924b88 <[pppoe]pppoe_connect+1d8/220>
   d:   89 34 24                  mov    %esi,(%esp,1)
Code;  f0924b8b <[pppoe]pppoe_connect+1db/220>
  10:   c7 44 24 04 00 00 00      movl   $0x0,0x4(%esp,1)
Code;  f0924b92 <[pppoe]pppoe_connect+1e2/220>
  17:   00 
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