do_gettimeofday() system crash

[Oliver Ryan <oryan@physics.nuigalway.ie>]

Hi,

I insmod a kernel module which calls do_gettimeofday in the following way:

struct timeval *timecount;

do_gettimeofday(timecount);

This causes a segmentation fault with the following error repeated on the screen: 
VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0).

Does anyone know what happened?

I do know that it is the do_gettimeofday that is causing the crash..without the line, the module loads and unloads fine.

Any help is much appreciated.

Oliver.

Dept. of Physics,
National University of Ireland, Galway,
Galway,
Ireland.

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