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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Frederik Deweerdt <deweerdt@free.fr>,
	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	suresh.b.siddha@intel.com, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Subject: Re: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000002
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:09:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080729120911.GI30344@one.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1217305335.5553.3.camel@marge.simson.net>

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 06:22:15AM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 00:26 +0200, Frederik Deweerdt wrote:
> > Hello  Aneesh,
> > 
> > On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 03:23:17PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> > > [  163.378265] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000002
> > > [  163.378276] IP: [<c0124933>] sched_power_savings_store+0x13/0x70
> > 
> > Does the attached patch solve the problem?
> 
> Patch seems to have missed the boat for rc1 too.

Hmm.  I'll resend. 

BTW i think it's clearly a  bug that distributions are even accessing
that file. It doesn't make any sense in the context they are using
it (like at every boot). 

-Andi


  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-29 12:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-25  9:53 BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000002 Aneesh Kumar K.V
2008-07-28 22:26 ` Frederik Deweerdt
2008-07-29  4:22   ` Mike Galbraith
2008-07-29 12:09     ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2008-07-29 13:56       ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-07-29 14:53         ` Andi Kleen
2008-07-29 15:30           ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-07-29 16:31             ` Andi Kleen
2008-07-29 17:22               ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-07-29 17:50                 ` Andi Kleen
2008-07-30  9:05     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-30  9:26       ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-30 16:31         ` Greg KH

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