From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>,
linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] NULL pointer dereference in uart_write_room().
Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 22:23:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080506212328.GA17929@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080505113055.5284052e@core>
On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 11:30:55AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > (5) uart_remove_one_port() is called by serial8250_register_port()
> > since ttyS0 is already in use but it is requested to be once removed.
>
> That means 8250_pnp is taking over and then trying to delete the console,
> so its breakage in the serial layer glue. Perhaps Russell has some ideas
> as its hard to tell what he intended to happen originally.
Is the rest of the report available somewhere?
--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of:
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-06 21:31 UTC|newest]
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[not found] ` <200805022300.GIB30385.FJOVHQSMFtOOFL@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
2008-05-04 8:16 ` [BUG] NULL pointer dereference in uart_write_room() Tetsuo Handa
2008-05-05 10:30 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-06 16:03 ` Ben Greear
2008-05-06 21:23 ` Russell King [this message]
2008-05-07 15:23 ` Tetsuo Handa
2008-05-07 19:19 ` Russell King
2008-05-02 5:35 Tetsuo Handa
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2008-04-22 7:49 Tetsuo Handa
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