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From: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Subject: Re: BUG: NULL pointer dereference in shmem_evict_inode()
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 09:40:27 +0800
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On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 06:15:00PM -0700, John Stultz wrote:
> On 08/20/2012 06:10 PM, John Stultz wrote:
> >On 08/20/2012 06:04 PM, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> >>Hi John,
> >>
> >>The below oops happens in v3.5..v3.6-rc2 and it's bisected down
> >>to commit
> >>2a8c0883c ("time: Move xtime_nsec adjustment underflow handling
> >>timekeeping_adjust").
> >>
> >>However linux-next is working fine. Do you have any fixes not
> >>yet sent to Linus?
> >Yea, there's a fix pending in tip/timers/urgent
> >(4e8b14526ca7fb046a81c94002c1c43b6fdf0e9b) to catch crazy values
> >from settimeofday or the cmos clock that might overflow a ktime_t.
> >
> >Out of curiosity, how are you triggering/reproducing this?
> >
> 
> Looking at the commit you pointed out, it seems more likely Ingo's
> fix (1d17d17484d40f2d5b35c79518597a2b25296996) might be related, but
> that should have landed in v3.6-rc2.  So I'm not sure.

Ah ok, looking back into the logs, I didn't find v3.6-rc2 being
tested. Sorry I should have confused it with another bug.

I'll test v3.6-rc2.

Thanks,
Fengguang