Re: [BUG] linux-next: Tree for August 26 - Badness atkernel/notifier.c:25

From: Stephen Rothwell
Date: Wed Aug 27 2008 - 10:38:40 EST


Hi Arjan,

On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:33:08 +1000 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The original reported trace was during setup_system which is very early in
> the boot.

But, of course, that version didn't have the necessary extra dereference
of the function address ...

And the later debug patch did not check the address at register time,
only at notify time.

The later trace also looks to be early in the boot.
--
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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