linux-kernel - Re: v2.6.31-rc6: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000008

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Date:	Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:23:17 -0700
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	"Zhang\, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	Xiaotian Feng <xtfeng@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	x86@...nel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
Subject: Re: v2.6.31-rc6: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer  dereference at 0000000000000008

"Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@...ux.intel.com> writes:

> On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 17:23 +0800, Xiaotian Feng wrote:
>> I got following on 2.6.31-rc5 and rc6 .....
> I didn't run into such issues on my 2 stoakley machines and 1 Nehalem machine.
> Perhaps kernel config bypasses this issue. What's the kernel config file you used?

My apologies.  I thought I had sent this earlier in the thread
but it turned out to be a private email.

The machine I am running is a 2.4Ghz core2 duo.

I also have core dumps enabled and each itteration of the test generates
a different core dump file in case that makes a difference.



View attachment "config-2.6.31-rc6-172084.2009.AroraKernelBeta.fc11.x86_64" of type "text/plain" (96658 bytes)


Eric