Kernel oops during untar

Richard Weinberger richard.weinberger at gmail.com
Tue Jun 2 00:48:52 PDT 2015


On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 9:22 AM, Christian Litjes <flitjesdev at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> The two kernel oopses below are happening in the following situation:
> A kernel with an init ramfs is mounting a mtd contains the rootfs.
> This kernel will then untar a tarball which is located in a ramdisk on the mtd.
>
> I've tried to untar with -v to figure out which file is causing it but
> this slows down the untar significantly so I'm unable to gather enough
> data. A oops will occur statistically once very 15 attempts. I hope
> this can be solved without knowing which file it is. If not I'll try
> to setup a test scenario to gather the data.
>
> Kernel version: 2.6.31.8

Please retry with a recent kernel. Maybe the issue got fixed already.

-- 
Thanks,
//richard



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