netdev - Re: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000000000002c

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Date:	Mon, 12 Dec 2011 10:45:10 +0100
From:	Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG <s.priebe@...fihost.ag>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
CC:	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...il.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000000000002c

Hi,

> Am 01.12.2011 22:05, schrieb Eric Dumazet:
>> Le jeudi 01 décembre 2011 à 15:37 -0500, Josh Boyer a écrit :
>>
>>> Did you mean f2c31e32bf2c31e32b378a665 ?  
>>
>> Oh well, yes ;)
>>
>>>> But this patch needs some followup patches (some of them in David net
>>>> tree, not yet in Linus tree)
>>>
>>> 9de79c127cccecb11ae6a21ab1499e87aa222880 (net: fix potential neighbour
>>> race in dst_ifdown()) is in Linus' tree.  Which others are missing?
>>
>> Hmm
>>
>> Linus tree :
>>
>> commit 580da35a31f91a594f3090b7a2c39b85cb051a12
>> IB: Fix RCU lockdep splats
>>
>> David tree :
>>
>> commit 218fa90f072e4aeff9003d57e390857f4f35513e
>> ipv4: fix lockdep splat in rt_cache_seq_show
>>
>> commit f7e57044eeb1841847c24aa06766c8290c202583
>> sch_teql: fix lockdep splat

main problem seems to me that all these patches make intensive use of
the "new" helper functions from 69cce1d1404968f78b177a0314f5822d5afdbbfb

So must 69cce1d1404968f78b177a0314f5822d5afdbbfb be backported too?

Stefan
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