From: Melchior FRANZ Subject: Re: [2.6.28.5] dm/crypt oops: "unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference" (tainted) Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:38:35 +0100 Message-ID: <200903161438.35634@rk-nord.at> References: <200903111319.43778@rk-nord.at> <49B82232.2090802@redhat.com> <20090313134916.GI7445@agk.fab.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, Milan Broz To: Alasdair G Kergon Return-path: Received: from nat-warsl417-02.aon.at ([195.3.96.120]:60338 "EHLO email.aon.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751340AbZCPNin (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Mar 2009 09:38:43 -0400 Received: from smarthub94.highway.telekom.at (HELO email.aon.at) ([172.18.5.236]) (envelope-sender ) by fallback44.highway.telekom.at (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 16 Mar 2009 13:38:39 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20090313134916.GI7445@agk.fab.redhat.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-crypto-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: * Alasdair G Kergon -- Friday 13 March 2009: > Latest version of this patch - please give this some testing! Thanks. I've applied it to 2.6.29-rc8-git2, and can confirm that my loop-mounted crypto file still works. Of course, I can't say if it fixes the oops bug, as I only ever got that once in a few years, and it would take another few years to be reasonably sure. Unfortunately, it looks as if 2.6.29-rc8-git2 doesn't run all USB devices that I depend on, so I can't even test the patch for a day. (Yes, I'll file an USB bug report once I know more about that.) m.