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Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 23:09:59 +0200 From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de> To: Michael Buesch <mb@...sch.de> CC: Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: NULL pointer dereference in sysfs_readdir Michael Buesch wrote: > On Saturday 21 October 2006 10:43, Stefan Richter wrote: ... >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=188140 ... > Looking through the code I was not able to locate the exact line > at which it oopses, with the above oops message. > Are you able to track down the exact pointer dereference, which causes > this? By inserting printks, perhaps. I need the original reporter to do this since I cannot reproduce the bug. Probably because I don't have an SMP machine yet. > Maybe FC changed some of the structures. I couldn't find > a used structure with an interresting member at offset 00000020, at least. Could be struct sysfs_dirent.s_dentry if I'm counting correctly in http://www.linux-m32r.org/lxr/http/source/include/linux/sysfs.h?v=2.6.16#L68 The trace was from 2.6.16. -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-==- =-=- =-=-= http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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