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From: David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] null pointer dereference patch
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 22:09:43 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-105590698806041@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-105590698806040@msgid-missing>

>>>>> On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 14:51:22 -0700, Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn_helgaas@hp.com> said:

  Bjorn> Without the attached patch, unaligned references before
  Bjorn> init_modules() is called result in null pointer dereferences.
  Bjorn> This is against 2.4.17-ia64-011226.

I wonder whether module_list shouldn't be made to be NULL until
init_modules() has had a chance to initialize it.  Keith?

	--david


  reply	other threads:[~2002-02-12 22:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-12 21:51 [Linux-ia64] null pointer dereference patch Bjorn Helgaas
2002-02-12 22:09 ` David Mosberger [this message]
2002-02-20  0:22 ` Keith Owens
2002-02-20 22:26 ` David Mosberger
2002-02-20 22:47 ` Keith Owens

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