Hi All, When I am trying to insert some modules on 2.6.35.9, I am getting some random crash's. There are 2 scenarios:- 1) When my rootfs is NFS mounted. In this case, when I insmod modules some get inserted and some gives crash. I have tried with following modules :- a) ext2.ko ; size 93K ; status - successfully inserted b) ext3.ko ; size 188K ; status - insertion failed c) xfs.ko ; size 823K ; status - insertion failed d) usbcore.ko ; size 243K ; status - insertion failed 2) When I created kernel Image using Initramfs, hence making all modules part of ramfs image all insertions are successfull In case of rootfs as NFS mounted here are some of the crash logs :- Crash 1 Linux#> insmod usbcore.ko Module len 238547 truncated insmod: can't insert 'usbcore.ko': invalid module format Crash 2 Linux#> insmod usbcore.ko CPU 0 Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 00100100, epc == 8008fb00, ra == 8008cf9c Oops[#1]: Cpu 0 $ 0 : 00000000 00000001 84166e00 00100100 $ 4 : 84166e00 8415e870 84166e00 8415e870 $ 8 : 84086720 83c12178 00000000 000081a4 $12 : 00000000 00000000 01a0c43d 00000000 $16 : 84166e00 83c12120 8410de58 00000000 $20 : 84166100 83c0b380 00000024 00002001 $24 : 00000000 800f058c $28 : 8410c000 8410ddb8 00000000 8008cf9c Hi : 000bf0c5 Lo : 6ab94a84 epc : 8008fb00 file_move+0x20/0x68 Not tainted ra : 8008cf9c __dentry_open+0x110/0x278 Status: 11008c03 KERNEL EXL IE Cause : 0080000c BadVA : 00100100 PrId : 00019555 (MIPS 34Kc) Modules linked in: Process insmod (pid: 260, threadinfo=8410c000, task=84136b20, tls=005c9470) Stack : 8410de58 8410de68 83c0b380 00000001 8410de58 84166e00 00000000 8410de58 8410de68 00000000 00002000 8008d1ec 83c06080 8410de58 00000000 83c06080 84086720 00000000 00000000 80099f4c ebb5351b 80380000 84086720 803177a0 8410de68 800900c0 ffffffe9 00000003 00002000 8410de68 ffffff9c 00000024 00000002 8009c23c 000003fc 00000000 84150420 84136b20 00000000 8400a000 ... Call Trace: [<8008fb00>] file_move+0x20/0x68 [<8008cf9c>] __dentry_open+0x110/0x278 [<8008d1ec>] nameidata_to_filp+0x38/0x5c [<80099f4c>] do_last+0x58c/0x6fc [<8009c23c>] do_filp_open+0x1c0/0x62c [<8008ce04>] do_sys_open+0x6c/0xc8 [<80002164>] stack_done+0x20/0x3c Code: af820014 8c830004 8c820000 <ac620000> 8ce40000 ac430004 acc40000 ac860004 ace60000 Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint note: insmod[260] exited with preempt_count 1 BUG: scheduling while atomic: insmod/260/0x10000002 Modules linked in: Call Trace: [<800051b4>] dump_stack+0x8/0x34 [<800054e0>] schedule+0x9c/0x4b4 [<80005a20>] _cond_resched+0x3c/0x60 [<80077788>] unmap_vmas+0x594/0x690 [<8007bf2c>] exit_mmap+0xc0/0x1a4 [<80024474>] mmput+0x3c/0x118 [<80028a88>] exit_mm+0x130/0x164 [<8002a89c>] do_exit+0x1b4/0x624 [<8000e3e8>] default_cu2_call+0x0/0x4c Segmentation fault I tried to debug myself and put some print in kernel/module.c function load_module, printing the length and offset of each section header. I found that on some sections the values are wrongly shown Linux#> insmod usbcore.ko load_module: umod=2aaa8008, len=238950, uargs=005c2f70 hdr->e_shnum 601 <= number of sections shown correctly header type sechdrs[i].sh_type =7 sechdrs[i].sh_offset=52 sechdrs[i].sh_size=36 <= correct header type sechdrs[i].sh_type =1 sechdrs[i].sh_offset=96 sechdrs[i].sh_size=0 <= correct header type sechdrs[i].sh_type =1 sechdrs[i].sh_offset=96 sechdrs[i].sh_size=72 <= correct header type sechdrs[i].sh_type =9 sechdrs[i].sh_offset=154448 sechdrs[i].sh_size=8 <= correct header type sechdrs[i].sh_type =1 sechdrs[i].sh_offset=168 sechdrs[i].sh_size=64 <= correct header type sechdrs[i].sh_type =9 sechdrs[i].sh_offset=154456 sechdrs[i].sh_size=8 <= correct header type sechdrs[i].sh_type =1 sechdrs[i].sh_offset=232 sechdrs[i].sh_size=64 <= correct header type sechdrs[i].sh_type =2136364925 sechdrs[i].sh_offset=4286298862 sechdrs[i].sh_size=1602090478 <= Incorrect header type sechdrs[i].sh_type =-1386227977 sechdrs[i].sh_offset=4293914174 sechdrs[i].sh_size=1429526523 <= Incorrect header type sechdrs[i].sh_type =-780708260 sechdrs[i].sh_offset=1579921686 sechdrs[i].sh_size=1562763221 <= Incorrect header type sechdrs[i].sh_type =-571181733 sechdrs[i].sh_offset=1875703162 sechdrs[i].sh_size=3600104807 <= Incorrect header type sechdrs[i].sh_type =9 sechdrs[i].sh_offset=182792 sechdrs[i].sh_size=32 <= correct header type sechdrs[i].sh_type =1 sechdrs[i].sh_offset=69044 sechdrs[i].sh_size=32 <= correct header type sechdrs[i].sh_type =9 sechdrs[i].sh_offset=182824 sechdrs[i].sh_size=32 <= correct header type sechdrs[i].sh_type =1 sechdrs[i].sh_offset=69076 sechdrs[i].sh_size=48 <= correct The prints goes on this way and lastly the insertion failed with this message :- CPU 0 Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ed79cc5b, epc == 80054254, ra == 800541d8 Oops[#1]: Please suggest me some ideas to debug as to why when rootfs is NFS mounted I am not able to load modules.