linux-kernel - [SPARC32] NULL pointer derefference

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Date:	Mon, 30 Jul 2007 03:18:42 +0100 (BST)
From:	Mark Fortescue <mark@...hpc.demon.co.uk>
To:	Ollie Wild <aaw@...gle.com>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, sparclinux@...r.kernel.org,
	wli@...omorphy.com, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net
Subject: [SPARC32] NULL pointer derefference

Hi All,

Unfortunatly Sparc32 sun4c low level memory management apears to be 
incompatible with commit b6a2fea39318e43fee84fa7b0b90d68bed92d2ba
mm: variable length argument support.

For some reason, this commit corrupts the memory used by the low level 
context/pte handling ring buffers in arch/sparc/mm/sun4c (in 
add_ring_ordered, head->next becomes set to a NULL pointer).

I had a quick look at http://www.linux-mm.org to see if there were any 
diagrams that show what is going on in the memory management systems, to 
see if there was something that I could use to help me work out what is 
going on, but I could not see any.

Can any one help?

Regards
 	Mark Fortescue.
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