Re: mmotm 2008-11-26-17-00 uploaded

From: Tetsuo Handa
Date: Wed Dec 03 2008 - 16:42:22 EST


Hello.

Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > > [ 24.978638] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000004
> > > [ 24.980541] IP: [<c056bfb7>] loopback_get_stats+0x26/0x51
> >
> > At a guess I'd say that local variable `stats' in loopback_get_stats()
> > is null.
> >
> > but it's a bit hard to see how that change could cause the crash which
> > you observed.
>
> Could be that some other code is stomping on per-cpu variables?

I don't know what was the cause, but mmotm 2008-12-02-17-08 is working fine.

Thanks.
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