segfault on kmem_cache_create

[Zeeshan Ali <zeelists@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

I get a segfault when i try to insmod a module that
calls kmem_cache_create. Here is the 'relevent' code:

node_cache =
     kmem_cache_create ("hash_table_nodes_cache", 
         sizeof (HashTableNode),
         0, SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN, NULL, NULL);

the value of sizeof (HashTableNode) is 16.
Here is the exact error i get:

------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel BUG at slab.c:642!
invalid operand: 0000
hellow parport_pc lp parport autofs 8139too mii
ipt_REJECT ipt_state ip_conntrack iptable_filter
ip_tables floppy sg scsi_mod microcode keybdev
mousedev hid i
CPU:    0
EIP:    0060:[<c013add6>]    Not tainted
EFLAGS: 00010202
                                                      
                         
EIP is at kmem_cache_create [kernel] 0x66
(2.4.22-1.2115.nptl)
eax: 00000000   ebx: 00000000   ecx: 00000016   edx:
00000100
esi: d80f2647   edi: d80f268e   ebp: 00002000   esp:
d50cda38
ds: 0068   es: 0068   ss: 0068
Process insmod (pid: 2678, stackpage=d50cd000)
Stack: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 d50cdae8
       d80f2647 d50cdac5 d50cda90 d80f2258 d80f2677
00000010 00000000 00002000
       00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
d50cdae8 d50cdf10 d80f2138
Call Trace:   [<d80f2647>] .LC2 [hellow] 0x0
(0xd50cda58)
[<d80f2258>] hash_table_init [hellow] 0x45
(0xd50cda64)
[<d80f2677>] .LC2 [hellow] 0x30 (0xd50cda68)
[<d80f2138>] init_module [hellow] 0xa3 (0xd50cda94)
[<c01a0504>] release_dev [kernel] 0x314 (0xd50cdacc)
[<c011ed74>] sys_init_module [kernel] 0x584
(0xd50cdf14)
[<d80f2060>] demo [hellow] 0x0 (0xd50cdf2c)
[<d80f2060>] demo [hellow] 0x0 (0xd50cdf58)
[<c0109b9f>] system_call [kernel] 0x33 (0xd50cdfc0)

The whole source code can be found at:

http://www.geocities.com/zeelists/htable.tgz

The kernel i am using is: 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl

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