Hello,
I am running Red Hat 8 Linux (kernel 2.4.20-28.8) as a guest under Windows XP. With VMware Workstation 5.5, everything was working fine. Then I upgraded to WS 6.5.1 and now if I try to copy a file to/from a share folder, I get a segmentation fault. I tried to dig up a little, and here is a dump of what I see when I do a dmesg command:
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 45acf570
printing eip:
e08daf68
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0002
ide-cd cdrom es1371 soundcore gameport ac97_codec nfsd lockd sunrpc autofs vmblock vsock vmci vmxnet vmmemctl pcnet32 mii iptable_filter ip_tables vmhgfs mous
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010:[<e08daf68>] Tainted: GF
EFLAGS: 00210206
EIP is at HgfsDoRead 0xe8 (2.4.20-28.8)
eax: 00001000 ebx: df564080 ecx: 00000400 edx: df5640b2
esi: df5640b2 edi: 45acf570 ebp: d0033e88 esp: d0033e60
ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Process cp (pid: 14301, stackpage=d0033000)
Stack: c0ab2468 db061180 4211a907 df56409e 00000000 00000000 00200292 00000000
00000000 c1016060 d0033ec8 e08db183 00000002 45acf570 00001000 00000000
00000000 00000000 c013b1ed c012c8a7 c16f11c0 c0048420 45acf570 c1016060
Call Trace: HgfsDoReadpage 0x77 (0xd0033e8c))
__alloc_pages 0x7d (0xd0033ea8))
do_anonymous_page 0x107 (0xd0033eac))
HgfsReadpage 0x22 (0xd0033ecc))
do_generic_file_read 0x1e1 (0xd0033eec))
file_read_actor 0x0 (0xd0033f18))
generic_file_read 0xb0 (0xd0033f38))
file_read_actor 0x0 (0xd0033f48))
HgfsRead 0x2d (0xd0033f74))
sys_read 0xa3 (0xd0033f94))
system_call 0x33 (0xd0033fc0))
Code: f3 a5 a8 02 74 02 66 a5 a8 01 74 01 a4 89 c6 eb b3 8b 43 26
Does anybody have an idea of why this happens and how to correct this?
Note that when I installed the vmware tools, it recompiled the vmhgfs driver (and others too).
Thanks,
Francois
