From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG Subject: Re: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000000000002c Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:48:40 +0100 Message-ID: <4F2B8348.3090305@profihost.ag> References: <20120201.162157.880976652659067010.davem@davemloft.net> <4F2A87B0.6070900@profihost.ag> <1328195055.2279.61.camel@edumazet-HP-Compaq-6005-Pro-SFF-PC> <20120202.143957.2251106530056768980.davem@davemloft.net> <20120203004228.GA23429@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: David Miller , eric.dumazet@gmail.com, jwboyer@gmail.com, hch@infradead.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, david@fromorbit.com, stable@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@suse.de To: Greg KH Return-path: Received: from mail.profihost.ag ([85.158.179.208]:58033 "EHLO mail.profihost.ag" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753145Ab2BCGsO (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Feb 2012 01:48:14 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20120203004228.GA23429@kroah.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Am 03.02.2012 01:42, schrieb Greg KH: > On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 02:39:57PM -0500, David Miller wrote: >> From: Eric Dumazet >> Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:04:15 +0100 >> >>> David, what do you think ? >> >> I frankly don't care at this point. >> >> The only reasonable thing is if someone can successfully do the >> backport, but if that's not possible there really isn't anything >> reasonable we can do, all the other options have fatal negative >> consequences which make them completely untenable. > > I agree. I'm pretty sure the distros basing their releases on 3.0 are > aware of this issue, so perhaps someone could dig through those tree and > see how they resolved this issue, if at all. > I haven't found any distris which has backported something regarding this issue. Also it seems that there's only Ubuntu using 3.0. Debian and others have already moved to 3.1 / 3.2. Anything i miss? I've made my own backport of the patch and removed at least 1-2 dependencies. Anybody interested? Stefan