From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: s.priebe@profihost.ag, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, jwboyer@gmail.com,
hch@infradead.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, david@fromorbit.com,
stable@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@suse.de
Subject: Re: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000000000002c
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:56:00 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120130215600.GA14656@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120130.164828.1695146432151008554.davem@davemloft.net>
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 04:48:28PM -0500, David Miller wrote:
> From: Stefan Priebe <s.priebe@profihost.ag>
> Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:53:34 +0100
>
> > So we're talking AT LEAST about these ones:
> >>Linus tree :
> >>
> >>commit 580da35a31f91a594f3090b7a2c39b85cb051a12
> >>IB: Fix RCU lockdep splats
>
> Doesn't even come close to applying to v3.0.18
>
> That patch would only apply properly if the IB code is using the
> dst_get_neighbour() interface, which doesn't even exist in v3.0.18
>
> >>David tree :
> >>
> >>commit 218fa90f072e4aeff9003d57e390857f4f35513e
> >>ipv4: fix lockdep splat in rt_cache_seq_show
>
> Patch also does not apply, and for the same reason as the IB patch.
>
> dst_get_neighbour() doesn't exist in v3.0.18, and therefore this code
> being patched doesn't make use of it.
>
> >>commit f7e57044eeb1841847c24aa06766c8290c202583
> >>sch_teql: fix lockdep splat
>
> I'm not even going to try applying this one, it's going to have the
> same issue as the previous two.
>
> The patch mentioned by commit 218fa90f072e4aeff9003d57e390857f4f35513e
> ("ipv4: fix lockdep splat in rt_cache_seq_show") is not in the v3.0.x
> tree, and it's a prerequisite for the rt_cache_seq_show() change
> being even necessary.
>
> In all, I think this request is invalid.
>
> You're asking me to submit patches to -stable which don't apply
> even remotely, and whose dependencies haven't even been applied
> to the tree.
Which makes me believe this really isn't a problem at all for 3.0.y...
David, thanks for going through this.
Stefan, you owe David a bunch of beer.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-30 21:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2011-12-01 18:23 ` BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000000000002c Christoph Hellwig
2011-12-01 20:20 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-12-01 20:37 ` Josh Boyer
2011-12-01 21:05 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-12-02 6:08 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2011-12-02 6:17 ` David Miller
2011-12-02 7:19 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2011-12-02 17:34 ` David Miller
2011-12-02 18:53 ` Greg KH
2011-12-09 19:01 ` Stefan Priebe
2011-12-09 19:21 ` David Miller
2011-12-10 9:03 ` Stefan Priebe
2012-01-30 8:38 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2012-01-30 17:12 ` Greg KH
2012-01-30 17:21 ` David Miller
2012-01-30 18:07 ` David Miller
2012-01-30 18:53 ` Stefan Priebe
2012-01-30 21:48 ` David Miller
2012-01-30 21:56 ` Greg KH [this message]
2012-01-31 8:08 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2012-02-01 21:21 ` David Miller
2012-02-02 12:55 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2012-02-02 15:04 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-02-02 18:37 ` Stefan Priebe
2012-02-02 19:39 ` David Miller
2012-02-03 0:42 ` Greg KH
2012-02-03 6:48 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2012-02-03 7:26 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-02-03 8:09 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2012-02-03 11:04 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-02-03 15:53 ` Greg KH
2012-02-06 9:04 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2012-02-06 9:19 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-02-06 12:47 ` TCP sacked_out and fackets_out inconsistency (Was: Re: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000000000002c) Ilpo Järvinen
2012-02-08 8:26 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2012-02-08 9:15 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-02-08 9:28 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-02-06 9:02 ` BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000000000002c Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2012-02-06 9:16 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-02-06 11:31 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2012-02-08 8:24 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2012-02-08 16:49 ` Greg KH
2012-02-09 6:43 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2012-02-08 20:19 ` David Miller
2012-02-09 1:26 ` David Miller
2012-02-09 6:44 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2012-02-09 22:13 ` David Miller
2012-02-10 7:04 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2012-02-10 7:07 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-02-10 18:25 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-02-10 20:41 ` David Miller
2012-02-03 15:52 ` Greg KH
2011-12-12 9:45 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2011-12-12 12:57 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
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