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To: Kanoj Sarcar <kanoj@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, linux-origin@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Crashes
From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 10:33:34 +0200
Sender: owner-linux-origin@xxxxxxxxxxx
I've had a crash while doing cd /; find . -xdev -print0 | cpio -oumd0 /mnt.
That copy went fine for a while, them I did cd /mnt/tmp; rm -rf * and
shortly after this the machine crashed.  The epc is pointing to 800d430c:

[...]
    800d42f8:   90a20000        lbu     $v0,0($a1)
    800d42fc:   14540005        bne     $v0,$s4,800d4314 
<isp1020_intr_handler+0x31c>
    800d4300:   3c020007        lui     $v0,0x7
    800d4304:   0c0350fb        jal     800d43ec <isp1020_return_status>
    800d4308:   00a0202d        move    $a0,$a1
    800d430c:   10000002        b       800d4318 <isp1020_intr_handler+0x320>
    800d4310:   ae020228        sw      $v0,552($s0)
    800d4314:   ae020228        sw      $v0,552($s0)
    800d4318:   960200d6        lhu     $v0,214($s0)
    800d431c:   5040000a        beqzl   $v0,800d4348 
<isp1020_intr_handler+0x350>
[...]

this is a branch, so the fault was caused by the following instruction which
was dereferencing a NULL pointer.  What makes me more worried about this kind
of crash is I also keep receiving reports about I/O errors and data corruption
from users of the 32-bit kernel while copying from one disk to another
physical disk, so exactly what also happened here.

Ideas?

  Ralf

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