From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Adrian McMenamin Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2009 17:29:38 +0000 Subject: Re: oops I get on booting Message-Id: <1234114178.6673.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> List-Id: References: <1233967281.6893.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1233967281.6893.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 2009-02-07 at 00:41 +0000, Adrian McMenamin wrote: > I am getting this error every so often on boot -as it is not every time > it seems to be a race condition of some sort. With the latest git the > frequency of the problem seems to have increased, but it has been there > for a while. > > Anybody have any suggestions as to what it might be? Naturally I'd > suspect my own code, though nothing I've written is in the stack: > > [ 42.893155] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000c > [ 42.909100] pc = 8c0874ea I think I've identified the source of this - some memory corruption in my code that was causing oopses elsewhere. A patch to follow.