From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 00:23:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 00:23:56 -0500 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:12047 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 00:23:55 -0500 Message-ID: <3DC9FA67.2000303@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 21:30:15 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020828 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, sv MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Patrick Mochel Subject: 2.4.20-rc1: oops in drivers/acpi/namespace/nswalk.c (with patch) Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------000401030706080903000506" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------000401030706080903000506 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have one machine which has been reliably oopsing in drivers/acpi/namespace/nswalk.c -- this patch makes it work, but I have no idea why. Either way, I thought someone would probably want to look at it. -hpa --------------000401030706080903000506 Content-Type: text/plain; name="nswalk.patch" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="nswalk.patch" --- drivers/acpi/namespace/nswalk.c~ Wed Oct 24 14:06:22 2001 +++ drivers/acpi/namespace/nswalk.c Wed Nov 6 21:13:37 2002 @@ -63,6 +63,8 @@ FUNCTION_ENTRY (); + if (!parent_node) + return NULL; /* Uhm... */ if (!child_node) { /* It's really the parent's _scope_ that we want */ --------------000401030706080903000506--