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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org>
Subject: 2.4.20-rc1: oops in drivers/acpi/namespace/nswalk.c (with patch)
Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 21:30:15 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DC9FA67.2000303@zytor.com> (raw)

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I have one machine which has been reliably oopsing in 
drivers/acpi/namespace/nswalk.c -- this patch makes it work, but I have 
no idea why.  Either way, I thought someone would probably want to look 
at it.

	-hpa

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--- drivers/acpi/namespace/nswalk.c~	Wed Oct 24 14:06:22 2001
+++ drivers/acpi/namespace/nswalk.c	Wed Nov  6 21:13:37 2002
@@ -63,6 +63,8 @@
 
 	FUNCTION_ENTRY ();
 
+	if (!parent_node)
+		return NULL;	/* Uhm... */
 
 	if (!child_node) {
 		/* It's really the parent's _scope_ that we want */

                 reply	other threads:[~2002-11-07  5:23 UTC|newest]

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