This has been opened as bug #21 on bugme.osdl.org. http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21 When trying to scp a file to the victim machine, I got this message then the oops: Attempt to release alive inet socket cdb59b60 ksymoops 2.4.4 on i686 2.4.18-3. Options used -V (default) -K (specified) -L (specified) -O (specified) -m System.map (specified) Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 5a5a5a5a c0115eea *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0002 CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[] Not tainted Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386 -a i386 EFLAGS: 00010082 eax: cdb59b8c ebx: 5a5a5a5a ecx: cdb3dea0 edx: cdb3de94 esi: 00000202 edi: 00000001 ebp: 00001354 esp: cdb3de68 ds: 0068 es: 0068 ss: 0068 Stack: cdb3c000 cdb59b60 c02a51db 00000000 ce3f8740 c0114e50 00000000 00000000 0001c67f cdb3de9c c011d9e5 00000001 ce3f8740 c0114e50 cdb59b8c 5a5a5a5a 000005a8 4b87ad6e c011d950 c033b929 cdb3c000 cdb59b60 c02bec57 cdb59b60 Call Trace: [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] Code: 89 0b 56 9d 5b 5e c3 eb 0d 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 >>EIP; c0115eea <===== Trace; c02a51db <__lock_sock+7b/f0> Trace; c0114e50 Trace; c011d9e5 Trace; c0114e50 Trace; c011d950 Trace; c02bec57 Trace; c0114e50 Trace; c0114e50 Trace; c02c7e52 Trace; c02d7b57 Trace; c02a28c0 Trace; c02a311d Trace; c013e0a2 <__fput+32/d0> Trace; c02a3d81 Trace; c013c9ed Trace; c013ca45 Trace; c010a62f Code; c0115eea 00000000 <_EIP>: Code; c0115eea <===== 0: 89 0b mov %ecx,(%ebx) <===== Code; c0115eec 2: 56 push %esi Code; c0115eed 3: 9d popf Code; c0115eee 4: 5b pop %ebx Code; c0115eef 5: 5e pop %esi Code; c0115ef0 6: c3 ret Code; c0115ef1 7: eb 0d jmp 16 <_EIP+0x16> c0115f00 Code; c0115ef3 9: 90 nop Code; c0115ef4 a: 90 nop Code; c0115ef5 b: 90 nop Code; c0115ef6 c: 90 nop Code; c0115ef7 d: 90 nop Code; c0115ef8 e: 90 nop Code; c0115ef9 f: 90 nop Code; c0115efa 10: 90 nop Code; c0115efb 11: 90 nop Code; c0115efc 12: 90 nop Code; c0115efd 13: 90 nop <0>Kernel panic: Aiee, killing interrupt handler! Steps to reproduce: scp anyfile user@target:/tmp It asks for the password, and finishes copying the file. After it's complete though, the server crashes.