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Re: Page Fault Handler Hijacking and Oops



I forgot that there's another message printed in Oops. It is the following:

Code: Bad EIP value
<0> Kernel Panic: Aiee, Killing Interrupt Handler!
In Interrupt handler - not syncing


Alle 22:59, mercoledì 3 agosto 2005, Vincenzo Mallozzi ha scritto:
> Hi all,
> in LKM I've implemented, I hijack the page fault handler with a function 
that 
> first scans a list created by me and then call the original page fault 
> handler.
> 
> Now, the problem is that when I scan this list from within functions 
different 
> from the one that hijack the page fault handler, all the elements of the 
list 
> are printed. 
> But, when I try to scan this list from within the exception handler 
hijacked, 
> only the first three elements are printed and then an Oops message is 
> printed.
> 
> The Oops is something like this:
> 
> Unable to handle NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000.
> 
> After this message the system crashes.
> 
> I know these information are too generic, but it is impossible to attach the 
> whole part of code I've implemented; it's too big.
> I want give you only an idea of the problem I've encountered, hoping that 
> someone have just encountered a problem like this in his programming-life.
> Can anyone suggest me?
> 
> Thanks.
> Vincenzo Mallozzi.
> 
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