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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Jeremiah Mahler <jmmahler@gmail.com>,
	cgroups@vger.kernel.org, Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: cgroup: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2016 06:54:37 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160102115437.GE3660@htj.duckdns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160101234028.GA1750@hudson.localdomain>

On Fri, Jan 01, 2016 at 03:40:28PM -0800, Jeremiah Mahler wrote:
> all,
> 
> When running the latest linux-next (20151231) two of my machines
> hang early in the boot sequence.  The initial message is for a
> NULL pointer dereference.
> 
>   BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000030
> 
> And the RIP line refers to cgroup_path.
> 
>   RIP [<ffffffff810eb178>] cgroup_path+0x30/0x80
> 
> Attached are pictures of the back trace.
> 
> Let me know if I can do anything else to help.  I will investigate the
> problem further if I get a chance.

This is most likely from the recent changes from cgroup ns support.
Reverted the patchset for now as it also introduced a bisectability
issue.  Serge, can you please look into this one?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

       reply	other threads:[~2016-01-02 11:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20160101234028.GA1750@hudson.localdomain>
2016-01-02 11:54 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2016-01-02 18:24   ` cgroup: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference Serge E. Hallyn
2016-01-02 21:50     ` Jeremiah Mahler
2016-01-03  0:59       ` Serge E. Hallyn
2016-01-03  3:41         ` Serge E. Hallyn
2016-01-04 19:15   ` Serge E. Hallyn
2016-01-04 19:17     ` Tejun Heo

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