linux-kernel - Re: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000000000000e (reset_prng

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Date:	Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:08:55 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>, davem@...emloft.net,
	mingo@...e.hu, nhorman@...driver.com, simon@...e.lp0.eu,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000000000000e (reset_prng_context)

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 03:11:10PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> > What are those unacceptable mistakes?
> > 
> > Don't read the code again, what are those mistakes?
> 
> Sleeping inside spinlock?

Actually no, that was purely the result of Ingo's random config
test.  It is extremely unlikely that anyone other than Ingo
would have enabled this option without the crypto algorithms
required by it.

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