From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934141AbZJNOxm (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:53:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S934018AbZJNOxl (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:53:41 -0400 Received: from Cpsmtpm-eml106.kpnxchange.com ([195.121.3.10]:52863 "EHLO CPSMTPM-EML106.kpnxchange.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933971AbZJNOxl (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:53:41 -0400 From: Frans Pop To: Earl Chew Subject: Re: fs/pipe.c null pointer dereference Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:53:02 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <4AD5D476.6010103@agilent.com> In-reply-To: <4AD5D476.6010103@agilent.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200910141653.03611.elendil@planet.nl> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 14 Oct 2009 14:53:03.0949 (UTC) FILETIME=[08517FD0:01CA4CDE] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Earl Chew wrote: > I'm working on a 2.6.21 based kernel and received the following > oops last tonight: 2.6.21 is really rather ancient for the kernel community and I doubt anyone here will really want to look into issues with it, given that there's a realistic chance it has already been fixed since then. The current stable version is 2.6.31 after all. Can you reproduce the oops with a current kernel? Have you checked if there have been any changes in the code you identified since 2.6.21? Cheers, FJP