From: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
To: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, josh@freedesktop.org,
dipankar@in.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [BUG] NULL pointer deref with rcutorture
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 00:12:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090102231239.GA19778@alice> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090102195326.GF6842@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
* Paul E. McKenney (paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com) wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 12:23:03AM +0530, Kamalesh Babulal wrote:
> > * Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [2009-01-02 09:58:53]:
> >
> > > On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 12:18:19PM +0100, Eric Sesterhenn wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > modprobing rcutorture and removing it again gives me the following oops:
> > >
> > > This looks similar to something that Kamalesh ran into a few weeks ago.
> > >
> > > Kamalesh, did the fixes for that make it to 2.6.28?
> > >
> > > Thanx, Paul
> > >
> >
> > Hi Paul,
> >
> > The fix was available in linux-next from Dec 23 2008 (commit 392ddc32982a5c661dd90dd49a3cb37f1c68b782
> > 'bio: add support for inlining a number of bio_vecs inside the bio') and it has be pushed for merger in 2.6.29.
>
> Thank you, Kamalesh!
>
> Eric, could you please try applying the above commit and see if the
> problem reproduces?
I tried to apply the patch from
http://git.kernel.dk/?p=linux-2.6-block.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=392ddc32982a5c661dd90dd49a3cb37f1c68b782;hp=bb799ca0202a360fa74d5f17039b9100caebdde7
but get a message that it is already applied. Seems i already got that
one.
Greetings, Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-02 23:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-02 11:18 [BUG] NULL pointer deref with rcutorture Eric Sesterhenn
2009-01-02 17:58 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-01-02 18:53 ` Kamalesh Babulal
2009-01-02 19:53 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-01-02 23:12 ` Eric Sesterhenn [this message]
2009-01-03 1:57 ` Paul E. McKenney
[not found] ` <20090103094003.GA6149@alice>
[not found] ` <20090104013254.GG6958@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2009-01-04 14:57 ` Eric Sesterhenn
2009-01-04 21:13 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-01-04 23:38 ` Eric Sesterhenn
2009-01-05 2:28 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-01-05 12:14 ` Eric Sesterhenn
2009-01-05 18:00 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-01-05 18:56 ` Eric Sesterhenn
2009-01-05 19:36 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-01-05 20:01 ` Eric Sesterhenn
2009-01-05 20:16 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-01-05 20:31 ` Eric Sesterhenn
2009-01-05 22:18 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-01-06 0:29 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-01-06 2:15 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-01-06 7:47 ` Eric Sesterhenn
2009-01-06 12:48 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-01-07 19:46 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-01-07 20:19 ` Eric Sesterhenn
2009-01-07 22:06 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-01-07 22:34 ` Eric Sesterhenn
2009-01-07 22:48 ` Paul E. McKenney
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