>Number: 289 >Category: os-linux >Synopsis: kernel: general protection: 0000 >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: apache (Apache HTTP Project) >State: open >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: apache >Arrival-Date: Sun Mar 30 22:50:00 1997 >Originator: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Organization: apache >Release: 1.2b7 >Environment: Linux 2.0.29 Gcc 2.7.2.1 Apache 1.2b7 >Description: I'm not sure if this is a bug in Apache or the Linux kernel, but I thought I'd report it anyway incase it is Apache. The httpd process went awry, became unkillable even on a SIGKILL, and took the load of the machine to 50. Here is what the kernel reported in the logs:
Mar 30 23:25:28 nevermind kernel: general protection: 0000 Mar 30 23:25:28 nevermind kernel: CPU: 0 Mar 30 23:25:28 nevermind kernel: EIP: 0010:[<0018f869>] Mar 30 23:25:28 nevermind kernel: EFLAGS: 00010046 Mar 30 23:25:28 nevermind kernel: eax: a81d6c38 ebx: 00fe6018 ecx: 001681d0 edx: 00fe6118 Mar 30 23:25:28 nevermind kernel: esi: 0021bb80 edi: 00000046 ebp: 00000001 esp: 03de5e8c Mar 30 23:25:28 nevermind kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018 Mar 30 23:25:28 nevermind kernel: Process httpd (pid: 30642, process nr: 56, stackpage=03de5000) Mar 30 23:25:28 nevermind kernel: Stack: 00000000 00000206 0021bb80 03de5ebc 00000001 001681f5 00000000 0011a798 Mar 30 23:25:28 nevermind kernel: 001e5cf0 00a60000 00001300 0021bb80 031d2018 0021bb9c 0011dc7a 0021bb80 Mar 30 23:25:28 nevermind kernel: 00a60000 00001300 0182fff8 031d2018 006d3065 001104f0 0021bb80 001dee78 Mar 30 23:25:28 nevermind kernel: Call Trace: [<001681f5>] [<0011a798>] [<0011dc7a>] [<001104f0>] [<0011e4ff>] [<00118814>] [<001185a8>] Mar 30 23:25:28 nevermind kernel: [<001104f0>] [<001103d4>] [<0010a700>] Mar 30 23:25:28 nevermind kernel: Code: 8a 40 04 c1 e8 04 83 e0 0f 8b 15 5c 3f 1c 00 8d 04 80 8b 44 Nothing else like this has happened to this machine before. >How-To-Repeat: Unknown. >Fix: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
