Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752867AbZAFMsU (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jan 2009 07:48:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751121AbZAFMsL (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jan 2009 07:48:11 -0500 Received: from e1.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.141]:48286 "EHLO e1.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751436AbZAFMsK (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jan 2009 07:48:10 -0500 Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 04:48:09 -0800 From: "Paul E. McKenney" To: Eric Sesterhenn Cc: Kamalesh Babulal , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, josh@freedesktop.org, dipankar@in.ibm.com Subject: Re: [BUG] NULL pointer deref with rcutorture Message-ID: <20090106124809.GC7655@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reply-To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com References: <20090105180037.GH6959@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20090105185655.GA11244@alice> <20090105193602.GL6959@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20090105200012.GB11244@alice> <20090105201631.GO6959@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20090105203153.GC11244@alice> <20090105221836.GT6959@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20090106002912.GA21071@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20090106021506.GA23052@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20090106074707.GA5975@alice> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090106074707.GA5975@alice> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15+20070412 (2007-04-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 968 Lines: 26 On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 08:47:07AM +0100, Eric Sesterhenn wrote: > * Paul E. McKenney (paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com) wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 04:29:12PM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 02:18:36PM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > I will see what I can find from this. > > > > Hello, Eric, > > > > Just for grins, I built the 2.6.28 kernel/rcutorture.c on b58602a. It > > insmoded and rmmoded without errors. > > > > Could you please try this on your setup? I have attached this file in > > case that helps. > > works like a charm Well, that certainly tells me where the bug lies. ;-) Thank you for all your hard work on this, I should have a patch soon. Thanx, Paul -- 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/