Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:43:41 -0700 (PDT)
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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: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:52:24 -0500

> David Miller wrote:
> > From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
> > Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:34:28 -0500
> > 
> >> David Miller wrote:
> >>> From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
> >>> Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:40:10 -0500
> >>>
> >>>> Sorry :(
> >>>>
> >>>> I used the davem patch, the second version of your first one, and your second 
> >>>> one. Both problems persist.
> >>>>
> >>>> Still plugging away on bisection.
> >>> GIT bisecting the lockdep problem is surely going the land you on:
> >>>
> >>> commit e308a5d806c852f56590ffdd3834d0df0cbed8d7
> >> No. It landed on this one.
> > 
> > For the lockdep warnings?
> 
> No - this one triggers the kernel BUG as follows:

Well, we were trying to fix the lockdep warnings.  One
thing at a time :-)

And that BUG is now just a WARN in Linus's tree, so if
you update you should get further along.