Subject: Re: Memory management fault w/NetBSD/alpha 1.6_RC1
To: Dave Huang <khym@azeotrope.org>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: current-users
Date: 09/03/2002 15:45:28
On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 05:31:54PM -0501, Dave Huang wrote:
> I don't suppose anyone knows what might have cause this:
>
> CPU 0: fatal kernel trap:
>
> CPU 0 trap entry = 0x2 (memory management fault)
> CPU 0 a0 = 0x0
> CPU 0 a1 = 0x1
> CPU 0 a2 = 0xffffffffffffffff
> CPU 0 pc = 0x0
> CPU 0 ra = 0x0
> CPU 0 pv = 0xe3af7
> CPU 0 curproc = 0xfffffc00076c08b8
> CPU 0 pid = 20307, comm = sshd
It jumped through a bad function pointer, maybe. The return address is
also 0, means it was probably returning to what the RA pointed to.
My guess is the stack got smashed somewhere, and a bogus RA was fetched
from the stack before a function return.
What was the system doing when this happened?
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-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>