Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753940AbdCMRFJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Mar 2017 13:05:09 -0400 Received: from mail-yw0-f171.google.com ([209.85.161.171]:35529 "EHLO mail-yw0-f171.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752017AbdCMRFC (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Mar 2017 13:05:02 -0400 Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2017 13:04:59 -0400 From: Tejun Heo To: Luis Henriques Cc: Zefan Li , "Eric W. Biederman" , Johannes Weiner , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: NULL pointer dereference in cgroup Message-ID: <20170313170459.GA15709@htj.duckdns.org> References: <20170308184616.553hndqxd7lljqkq@charon> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170308184616.553hndqxd7lljqkq@charon> User-Agent: Mutt/1.7.1 (2016-10-04) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 605 Lines: 23 Hello, On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 06:46:16PM +0000, Luis Henriques wrote: > Hi, > > I've seen this only once, and can't reproduce it. But here it is anyway: > > https://postimg.org/image/pn94k1yov > > (Not sure png files are accepted on LKML.) > > This occurred in a VM while booting 4.11.0-rc1 It was trying to migrate a process and encountered a NULL deref while trying to find the destination css_set. Unfortunately, it's difficult to tell what went wrong with just the posted backtrace. If you built the kernel with debuginfo, the output of addr2line could help quite a bit. Thanks. -- tejun