Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 20 Sep 2003 11:40:42 +1000 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: BUG at mm/memory.c:1501 in 2.6.0-test5 |
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Richard B. Johnson wrote:
>On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Petr Vandrovec wrote: > > >>On 18 Sep 03 at 13:43, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> >>>On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 10:27:58PM +0200, Petr Vandrovec wrote: >>> >>>>EIP: 0060:[<c015be10>] Tainted: PF >>>> >>> snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "Tainted: %c%c%c", >>> tainted & TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE ? 'P' : 'G', >>> tainted & TAINT_FORCED_MODULE ? 'F' : ' ', >>> tainted & TAINT_UNSAFE_SMP ? 'S' : ' '); >>> >>>This is probably the reason you're not getting much in the way of a >>>response. >>> >>I explicitly stated that it happened shortly after I shut down VMware UI, >>and that I spent whole day trying to find what's going on, finally >>politely asking for help, hoping that someone could have a clue >>what went wrong. >> Petr Vandrovec >> >> > >Okay. I'll be more specific. The "Tainted PF" shown above is >because you have installed a module that is [P]roprietary and >it was [F]orced to load. > >Any module running inside the kernel can destroy anything. >There is no protection inside the kernel. A simple bug in any >module can not only cause your machine to die, but it can, in >principle, destroy everything on your hard disk as well as >shutting down your LAN, causing millions of dollars of >damages (seriously). It is possible. > >Therefore, If you report a bug, and your system is tainted >with a proprietary module, nobody can help you because the >
You should send your report to the vendor. They might not be supporting 2.6 yet though. Alternatively, try to reproduce the problem having never loaded closed source modules since booting: it is now much less frustrating for developers to track down and fix.
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