Fatal trap 9: general protection fault while in kernel mode

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Sun Nov 2 22:32:22 PST 2003


On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 09:59:55PM -0800, Peter Wemm wrote:

> For the record, I have not seent this before.   Can you please save the
> kernel that blew up with that?  A GPF is kinda odd for a kernel trap.  Its
> normally something that comes from a misaligned SSE2 register write to
> stack.  Unfortunately, the disassembler has not been taught about the REX
> prefixes yet.  "decl %eax" is a rex prefix for the next instruction.

hammer01 is still sitting in DDB if you want to play with it.

Kris
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