My box panicked, and I have captured the kernel panic/oops messages. How can I quickly find out where the failure has occurred based on the EIP address?

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To quickly find out where the failure has occurred, use the Red Hat Crash utility. This is provided by installing the kernel-debuginfo

package and generating the kernel crash dump file, vmcore, using a kernel crash dump facility (Netdump/Diskdump/Kdump).

The kernel panic/oops messages typically look like:

Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual ...

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