Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:15:59 -0700 (PDT)
Message-Id: <20080721.131559.258601277.davem@davemloft.net>
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Subject: Re: [crash] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference
 at 0000000000000370
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:47:58 -0700 (PDT)

> On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, Larry Finger wrote:
> > With an invalid opcode, mine is likely due to stack corruption.
> 
> No, invalid opcode is because we use the "ud2" instruction for BUG(), 
> which causes an invalid op exception. So any BUG[_ON]() will always cause 
> that on x86.

Is there really no more backtrace from that crash message?
It would tell me what driver it's in.

There is some "comm: b43" in the log so I'll check that one.
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