Re: [linux-pm] [2.6.36-rc4/HEAD] unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference?(plist_add)

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Thu Sep 16 2010 - 14:27:04 EST


On Thursday, September 16, 2010, Simon Kirby wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 10:38:25PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>
> > Hmm, interesting. This looks like a plist corruption to me, but can you please
> > check (using gdb) what line of code corresponds to the address
> > plist_add+0x36/0xa0 ?
>
> I ended up rebuilding since then, and I enabled a bunch of debugging
> stuff. Does this help make it more obvious? I'll try your other patch
> tonight, but I still don't get what's wrong with the existing code.

That's not necessary, since the https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17922
patch works for you.

Thanks,
Rafael
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