Re: [BUG] NULL pointer deref with rcutorture

Paul E. McKenney
2009-01-06T12:48:20Z

On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 08:47:07AM +0100, Eric Sesterhenn wrote:
> * Paul E. McKenney (paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com) wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 04:29:12PM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 02:18:36PM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > I will see what I can find from this.
> >
> > Hello, Eric,
> >
> > Just for grins, I built the 2.6.28 kernel/rcutorture.c on b58602a. It
> > insmoded and rmmoded without errors.
> >
> > Could you please try this on your setup? I have attached this file in
> > case that helps.
>
> works like a charm

Well, that certainly tells me where the bug lies. ;-)

Thank you for all your hard work on this, I should have a patch soon.

Thanx, Paul