Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 11 Feb 2006 16:29:30 +0100 | From | Marc Koschewski <> | Subject | Re: [BUG GIT] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address e1380288 |
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* Doug McNaught <doug@mcnaught.org> [2006-02-11 10:19:29 -0500]:
> Marc Koschewski <marc@osknowledge.org> writes: > > > Moreover, I don't know in what way a PCI graphics adapter is pissing off USB > > devices. Is there a chance to? > > Sure. Drivers run in kernel mode and, if buggy, can scribble all over
Sure thing.
> any part of kernel memory, causing problems in completely unrelated > places.
But the trace I sent didn't (directly) do any memory allocation so the case was clear to me.
From a developers point of view I totally agree that doing some bad code 'here' might crash us 'there'. But the backtrace didn't look like this to me...
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