Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754162Ab3FGD7w (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jun 2013 23:59:52 -0400 Received: from mail-pd0-f177.google.com ([209.85.192.177]:52266 "EHLO mail-pd0-f177.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752250Ab3FGD7u (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jun 2013 23:59:50 -0400 Message-ID: <1370577588.24311.407.camel@edumazet-glaptop> Subject: Re: NULL pointer dereference when loading the gre module (3.10.0-rc4) From: Eric Dumazet To: Steven Rostedt Cc: "Steinar H. Gunderson" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Rusty Russell Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 20:59:48 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20130607030648.GA28618@home.goodmis.org> References: <20130606221656.GA11475@uio.no> <20130607030648.GA28618@home.goodmis.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.2.3-0ubuntu6 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 994 Lines: 26 On Thu, 2013-06-06 at 23:06 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 12:16:56AM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > > Hi, > > > > In 3.10.0-rc4, I get this on boot: > > > > [ 16.871043] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000003 > > [ 16.879453] IP: [] 0xffffffffa0e52001 > > Strange, kallsyms should have registered the address already, even if it > crashed on early module load. Not sure why it's not reporting it. Well, > it seems to have reported some of the symbols of ip_gre below. Maybe > this pointer is just totally screwed up. I could not reproduce this here. Steinar, please make sure you recompiled your modules, because this looks like you loaded old modules. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/