Re: linux-next: Tree for September 3

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Thu Sep 04 2008 - 19:18:53 EST


On Fri, 5 Sep 2008 00:45:33 +0200 (CEST)
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, 4 Sep 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> > and oh dear, the clockevents code just oopsed.
>
> Sigh.
>
> > BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000040
> > IP: [<c0126e7f>] get_next_timer_interrupt+0xe9/0x1ab
>
> Cute, NULL pointer in the timer check code. Can you please addr2line
> the exact code line or upload the vmlinux somewhere ?
>

erm, I might have lost that binary, and it only happened the once. It
happened shortly after the machine had fully booted, during
establishment of the first sshd session.

It nuked the machine really well, too. I had to pull the battery to
get it back.

fwiw:


(gdb) l *0xc0126e7f
0xc0126e7f is in get_next_timer_interrupt (kernel/timer.c:863).
warning: Source file is more recent than executable.
858 for (array = 0; array < 4; array++) {
859 struct tvec *varp = varray[array];
860
861 index = slot = timer_jiffies & TVN_MASK;
862 do {
863 list_for_each_entry(nte, varp->vec + slot, entry) {
864 found = 1;
865 if (time_before(nte->expires, expires))
866 expires = nte->expires;
867 }

which looks reasonable.
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