id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,component,version,resolution,keywords,cc,guest,host
7279,Kernel NULL pointer dereference in vboxnetadp on 2.6.35,Cedric Vivier,,"It seems VirtualBox cannot laod vboxnetadp module on 2.6.35 due to a kernel NULL poitner dereference.

Logs below :

{{{

vboxdrv: Trying to deactivate the NMI watchdog permanently...
vboxdrv: Warning: 2.6.31+ kernel detected. Most likely the hardware performance
vboxdrv: counter framework which can generate NMIs is active. You have to prevent
vboxdrv: the usage of hardware performance counters by
vboxdrv:   echo 2 > /proc/sys/kernel/perf_counter_paranoid
vboxdrv: Found 4 processor cores.
VBoxDrv: dbg - g_abExecMemory=ffffffffa0042240
vboxdrv: fAsync=0 offMin=0x278 offMax=0x236d
vboxdrv: TSC mode is 'synchronous', kernel timer mode is 'normal'.
vboxdrv: Successfully loaded version 3.2.8 (interface 0x00140001).
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)
IP: [<ffffffffa000d1ae>] vboxNetAdpOsCreate+0x3c/0x82 [vboxnetadp]
PGD 83b13067 PUD 5ec50067 PMD 0 
Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP 
last sysfs file: /sys/module/vboxdrv/initstate
CPU 0 
Modules linked in: vboxnetadp(+) vboxnetflt vboxdrv uvcvideo videodev v4l1_compat v4l2_compat_ioctl32 [last unloaded: scsi_wait_scan]

Pid: 8522, comm: modprobe Tainted: G        W   2.6.35+ #19 U30Jc/U30Jc
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffa000d1ae>]  [<ffffffffa000d1ae>] vboxNetAdpOsCreate+0x3c/0x82 [vboxnetadp]
RSP: 0018:ffff88005ee0dea8  EFLAGS: 00010286
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffffffa000d9f0 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 000000000027000a RSI: ffffffffa000d65e RDI: ffff880142d56800
RBP: ffff88005ee0dec8 R08: ffff880001e10518 R09: ffff880142d56a38
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000013080 R12: ffff880142d56800
R13: 00000000023764d0 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000002377430
FS:  00007fef14d94700(0000) GS:ffff880001e00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000000005ec52000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Process modprobe (pid: 8522, threadinfo ffff88005ee0c000, task ffff880142dac500)
Stack:
 ffffffffa000d9f0 ffff88005ee0df00 000000000237e210 ffffffffa000d34f
<0> 000000000027000a ffffffff8104f5fe 0000000000000000 ffffffffa000dd30
<0> 0000000000000008 ffffffffa000d3b2 ffffffff81a54390 000000000237e210
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffffa000d34f>] ? vboxNetAdpCreate+0x50/0x7e [vboxnetadp]
 [<ffffffff8104f5fe>] notifier_call_chain+0x2e/0x5b
 [<ffffffffa000d3b2>] ? vboxNetAdpInit+0x35/0x3f [vboxnetadp]
 [<ffffffffa01e5013>] ? VBoxNetAdpLinuxInit+0x13/0xb1 [vboxnetadp]
 [<ffffffffa01e5000>] ? VBoxNetAdpLinuxInit+0x0/0xb1 [vboxnetadp]
 [<ffffffff810001e0>] ? do_one_initcall+0x4f/0x13e
 [<ffffffff8105feaf>] ? sys_init_module+0x97/0x1d4
 [<ffffffff81001fab>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
Code: 89 f5 48 89 fb 48 c7 c6 54 d6 00 a0 bf b8 00 00 00 e8 30 d9 3d e1 49 89 c4 48 85 c0 74 4c 8b 55 00 48 8b 80 58 02 00 00 4c 89 e7 <89> 10 66 8b 55 04 66 89 50 04 e8 c3 d8 3d e1 89 c5 85 c0 75 17 
RIP  [<ffffffffa000d1ae>] vboxNetAdpOsCreate+0x3c/0x82 [vboxnetadp]
 RSP <ffff88005ee0dea8>
CR2: 0000000000000000
---[ end trace 6a1e41a6c0839587 ]---


}}}
",defect,closed,other,VirtualBox 3.2.8,worksforme,vboxnetadp,,other,Linux