From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [crash, bisected] net, sky2: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference, pci_vpd_truncate()
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 11:25:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090406092517.GA4405@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090406090303.GA12525@elte.hu>
* Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> Not sure whether this has been reported before, but one of the
> -tip testboxes started showing the boot crash attached below.
> Reproduces with latest -git.
>
> I have bisected it to:
>
> | installing & booting kernel ... => good. (114 seconds)
> | 3834507d0c5480a0f05486c2fb57ed18fd179a83 is first bad commit
> | commit 3834507d0c5480a0f05486c2fb57ed18fd179a83
> | Author: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
> | Date: Tue Feb 3 11:27:30 2009 +0000
> |
> | sky2: set VPD size
> |
> | Read configuration register during probe and use it to size the
> | available VPD. Move existing code using same register slightly
> | earlier in probe handling.
>
> [ I'm testing the straight revert currently. Can send more info if
> needed. ]
The revert solved the crash.
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-06 9:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-06 9:03 [crash, bisected] net, sky2: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference, pci_vpd_truncate() Ingo Molnar
2009-04-06 9:25 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2009-04-06 17:24 ` Stephen Hemminger
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