From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751864Ab2LBO2J (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Dec 2012 09:28:09 -0500 Received: from mail-pa0-f46.google.com ([209.85.220.46]:54338 "EHLO mail-pa0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751301Ab2LBO2I (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Dec 2012 09:28:08 -0500 Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2012 06:28:02 -0800 From: Tejun Heo To: Cyrill Gorcunov Cc: LKML , Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm, percpu: Make sure percpu_alloc early parameter has an argument Message-ID: <20121202142802.GS15930@mtj.dyndns.org> References: <20121124211713.GA22236@moon> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20121124211713.GA22236@moon> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 01:17:13AM +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: > Otherwise we are getting a nil dereference > > | [ 0.000000] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null) > | [ 0.000000] IP: [] strcmp+0x10/0x30 > > Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov Applied to percpu/for-3.8. Thanks! -- tejun