Re: [crash] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000370

Patrick McHardy
2008-07-21T20:52:15Z

David Miller wrote:
> From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
> Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:38:47 -0500
>
>> David Miller wrote:
>>> No further backtrace? That will tell us what driver is causing
>>> this.
>> Yes, I have a full backtrace.
>>
>> It starts with possible recursive locking in NetworkManager, and goes directly
>> into the Warning - this came from a later pull of Linus's tree.
>
> That helps a lot, I'm looking at this now.

I'm guessing this needs similar lockdep class initializations
to _xmit_lock since it essentially has the same nesting rules.