Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754574AbYH0V24 (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:28:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752772AbYH0V2q (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:28:46 -0400 Received: from pne-smtpout2-sn2.hy.skanova.net ([81.228.8.164]:41127 "EHLO pne-smtpout2-sn2.hy.skanova.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752064AbYH0V2p (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:28:45 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 4243 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:28:45 EDT To: Linus Torvalds Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Alan Cox , Jens Axboe , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Adrian Bunk , Andrew Morton , Natalie Protasevich , Kernel Testers List Subject: Re: 2.6.27-rc4-git1: Reported regressions from 2.6.26 References: From: Peter Osterlund Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:17:49 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Linus Torvalds's message of "Sun\, 24 Aug 2008 11\:34\:32 -0700 \(PDT\)") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1070 Lines: 34 Linus Torvalds writes: > On Sat, 23 Aug 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: >> >> Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11401 >> Subject : pktcdvd: BUG, NULL pointer dereference in pkt_ioctl, bisected >> Submitter : Laurent Riffard >> Date : 2008-08-22 08:16 (2 days old) > > This one looks irritating. > > It's bisected to 5b6155ee70e9c4d2ad7e6f514c8eee06e2711c3a ("pktcdvd: push > BKL down into driver"), but the problem goes deeper than that. ... > Grr. ... > Double grr. ... > Hmm? > > We need to fix this. Why not just revert the offending change and try again during the next merge window, assuming someone has figured out an acceptable way to handle this mess by then? -- Peter Osterlund - petero2@telia.com http://web.telia.com/~u89404340 -- 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/