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From: David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 22:09:43 +0000
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] null pointer dereference patch
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>>>>> 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