When trying to load NIC modules I get following oopses: PAX: suspicious general protection fault: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[<0002cbdf>] Not tainted EFLAGS: 00010202 (2.6.5-hardened-r5) eax: 00000000 ebx: c0103c14 ecx: c0103c14 edx: 00000000 esi: c319a000 edi: c487f9a0 ebp: c0103bfc esp: c319bf70 ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Process modprobe (pid: 29467, threadinfo=c319a000 task=c320a0c0) Stack: c12dec80 c12dec60 0806c5b8 08049513 00004039 c319a000 00005ba7 0806c5b8 00004039 08062808 08049513 00004039 08062808 00000080 5bdb007b 0000007b 00000080 24d00cce 00000073 00000246 5bdb6b70 0000007b 5bdb6aa0 0000007b Call Trace: [<00004039>] [<00005ba7>] [<00004039>] [<00004039>] [<00000080>] [<0000007b>] [<00000080>] [<00000073>] [<00000246>] [<0000007b>] [<0000007b>] [<00000000>] [<0000007b>] [<0000007b>] [<00000003>] [<00000073>] [<00000246>] [<0000007b>] [<0000007b>] [<00000000>] Code: ff 57 68 85 c0 89 c3 78 77 89 e9 ff 0d fc 3b 10 c0 0f 88 51 PAX: suspicious general protection fault: 0000 [#2] PREEMPT CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[<0002cbdf>] Not tainted EFLAGS: 00010202 (2.6.5-hardened-r5) eax: 00000000 ebx: c0103c14 ecx: c0103c14 edx: 00000000 esi: c319a000 edi: c487b240 ebp: c0103bfc esp: c319bf64 ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Process modprobe (pid: 2698, threadinfo=c319a000 task=c320a0c0) Stack: 0003e180 272ac000 0806f118 08049513 000051c6 c319a000 00005ba7 0806f118 000051c6 08065368 08049513 000051c6 08065368 00000080 0000007b 272a007b 00000080 27365cce 00000073 00000246 5b65c8e0 0000007b 0000007b 5b65007b Call Trace: [<0003e180>] [<000051c6>] [<00005ba7>] [<000051c6>] [<000051c6>] [<00000080>] [<0000007b>] [<00000080>] [<00000073>] [<00000246>] [<0000007b>] [<0000007b>] [<0000005b>] [<00000073>] [<00000206>] [<0000007b>] [<00000246>] [<0000007b>] [<0000007b>] [<00000206>] [<0000007b>] [<00000000>] Code: ff 57 68 85 c0 89 c3 78 77 89 e9 ff 0d fc 3b 10 c0 0f 88 51 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Boot up... 2.modprobe 3c509 3.oops... Actual Results: dmesg shows oops and this is lsmod output: wifigw root # lsmod Module Size Used by 3c515 13636 1 3c509 9716 1 This is a server/router environment... wifigw root # emerge info Portage 2.0.50-r8 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r0, 2.6.5-hardened-r5) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.5-hardened-r5 i686 Celeron (Mendocino) Gentoo Base System version 1.5.0 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-Os -march=pentium2 -mcpu=pentium2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-Os -march=pentium2 -mcpu=pentium2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.linux.ee/pub/gentoo/distfiles" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="apm arts avi crypt cups encode foomaticdb gif gnome gtk gtk2 hardened imlib jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mpeg ncurses nptl oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl slang snmp spell ssl svga tcpd truetype x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"
*NOT* a security bug, it's a *HARDENED* bug
Please try to reproduce this with h-d-s-2.6.7
Ok.. happened with hardened-dev-sources-2.6.7-r1 too. One workaround would be disablind module loading in kernel. Anyone wants a dot.config?
Is this problem still extant? If so, it would be worth building the relevant modules into the kernel to see if the problem is specific to the modularisation. FWIW 3c59x loads fine as a module on one of my machines, with hardened-dev-sources-2.6.7-r7.
From the sounds of comment #4 this bug is resolved. Reopen if otherwise.
