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Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 08:13:45 -0700
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: BUG: NULL pointer dereference in try_to_del_timer_sync()
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On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 11:55:51PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> (cc linux-usb)
> 
> On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:14:16 +0200 Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de> wrote:
> 
> > This happened more than once in the last 12h on my desktop machine with
> > the kernel snapshot as of ce8a7424d23a36f043 (yesterday). It's not
> > reproducible, otherwise I would have bisected it.
> > 
> > Daniel
> > 
> > 
> > [10982.240372] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000090
> > [10982.240383] IP: [<c022eefd>] lock_timer_base+0xe/0x3e
> > [10982.240396] *pde = 00000000 
> > [10982.240400] Oops: 0000 [#2] PREEMPT SMP 
> > [10982.240405] last sysfs file: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.1/usb1/1-3/idProduct
> > [10982.240411] Modules linked in: cbc nvidia(P) ppdev lp nfsd exportfs nfs lockd nfs_acl auth_rpcgss sunrpc dm_crypt dm_mod aes_generic cryptoloop loop snd_usb_caiaq snd_rawmidi pl2303 snd_pcm ftdi_sio usbserial snd_timer snd_page_alloc psmouse pcspkr i2c_nforce2 via_rhine mii forcedeth parport_pc thermal button [last unloaded: nvidia]
> > [10982.240449] 
> > [10982.240455] Pid: 22809, comm: cu Tainted: P      D    (2.6.30-rc3 #1) MS-7260
> > [10982.240458] EIP: 0060:[<c022eefd>] EFLAGS: 00210286 CPU: 1
> > [10982.240462] EIP is at lock_timer_base+0xe/0x3e
> > [10982.240465] EAX: 0000007c EBX: 0000007c ECX: c022f4b9 EDX: ea10fe5c
> > [10982.240468] ESI: ffffffff EDI: 0000007c EBP: ea10fe54 ESP: ea10fe44
> > [10982.240471]  DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0033 SS: 0068
> > [10982.240475] Process cu (pid: 22809, ti=ea10e000 task=ea779270 task.ti=ea10e000)
> > [10982.240477] Stack:
> > [10982.240479]  ea10fe5c 0000007c ffffffff 0000007c ea10fe68 c022f0b6 00200246 00000094
> > [10982.240488]  00200246 ea10fe7c c022f515 000004b2 f66b4c00 00000000 ea10fe94 f86930c6
> > [10982.240497]  22222222 f869c310 f66b4c00 ea0bf000 ea10feb8 f85c0a32 edc52f00 f66b4ce4
> > [10982.240507] Call Trace:
> > [10982.240510]  [<c022f0b6>] ? try_to_del_timer_sync+0x15/0x4f
> > [10982.240516]  [<c022f515>] ? del_timer_sync+0x5c/0x6c
> > [10982.240521]  [<f86930c6>] ? ftdi_close+0xc5/0xe9 [ftdi_sio]

Ick.

Can you reproduce this without having loaded the nvidia driver?

What were you doing when this happened?

thanks,

greg k-h
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