"Oops" while doing "ps -ef"

Hi Marc,

this is just another bizarre error I got with your preliminary version
of the long aw^W... err, forget it. "ps -ef" leads to:

May  1 01:17:10 demeter kernel:  <1>Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer =
dereference at virtual address 00000074
May  1 01:17:10 demeter kernel:  printing eip:
May  1 01:17:10 demeter kernel: c02302e3
May  1 01:17:10 demeter kernel: *pde =3D 00000000
May  1 01:17:10 demeter kernel: Oops: 0000 [#9]
May  1 01:17:10 demeter kernel: GRSECURITY
May  1 01:17:10 demeter kernel: Modules linked in: quota_v2 eepro100 mii
May  1 01:17:10 demeter kernel: CPU:    0
May  1 01:17:10 demeter kernel: EIP:    0010:[may_ptrace_attach+115/256] =
   Not tainted VLI
May  1 01:17:10 demeter kernel: EFLAGS: 00010202   (2.4.20-wolk4.18s)
May  1 01:17:10 demeter kernel: eax: 00000000   ebx: 00000000   ecx: 0000=
0000   edx: cbb92000
May  1 01:17:10 demeter kernel: esi: d19f6000   edi: 00000000   ebp: d286=
4580   esp: cbb93f34
May  1 01:17:10 demeter kernel: ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018
May  1 01:17:10 demeter kernel: Process ps (pid: 28315, stackpage=3Dcbb93=
000)
May  1 01:17:10 demeter kernel: Stack: d2864580 00000000 d19f6000 0000000=
0 c023038d d19f6000 c020351c c0104780
May  1 01:17:10 demeter kernel:        00000000 00000000 00000000 0000000=
0 000007ff c0230b18 d19f6000 c6993000
May  1 01:17:10 demeter kernel:        df156380 00000000 cbb93f80 d19f600=
0 c6993000 d4dac280 d4dac2a0 ffffffea
May  1 01:17:10 demeter kernel: Call Trace:  [proc_pid_environ+29/176]   =
[dentry_open+140/592]   [proc_info_read+104/304]   [sys_read+153/256]   [=
ret+0/13]
May  1 01:17:10 demeter kernel: Code: f6 40 74 01 75 24 bb 00 e0 ff ff 21=
 e3 f6 83 da 01 00 00 08

Doesn't seem to negatively affect system stability. .config is
available as http://mail.incertum.net/.config

Sourcecode date was April 15, 2005, IIRC.


griehtinx
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