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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: cebbert@redhat.com
Cc: croulder@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel BUG: NULL pointer dereference , reference to sys_recvmsg
Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 14:21:38 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070510.142138.54188362.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <464389A2.6080606@redhat.com>

From: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 17:07:46 -0400

> Here in sys_recvmsg() line 1911:
> 
> ==>     if (sock->file->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK)
>                 flags |= MSG_DONTWAIT;
>         err = sock_recvmsg(sock, &msg_sys, total_len, flags);
> 
> sock == -1, apparently because that's what sockfd_lookup_light() 
> returned earlier in the function. (It doesn't check err, just
> that the returned sock is nonzero.)

sockfd_lookup_light() returns NULL in all cases where 'err'
is set non-zero.

I suspect file->private_data has been corrupted somehow.

      reply	other threads:[~2007-05-10 21:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <547a31ab0705100712w740e8fbuece5013d05a449b9@mail.gmail.com>
2007-05-10 21:07 ` Kernel BUG: NULL pointer dereference , reference to sys_recvmsg Chuck Ebbert
2007-05-10 21:21   ` David Miller [this message]

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