linux-kernel - Re: [BUG] linux-next: Tree for August 26

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Date:	Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:38:21 +1000
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linuxppc-dev@...abs.org, mingo@...e.hu,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] linux-next: Tree for August 26 - Badness at
 kernel/notifier.c:25

Hi Arjan,

On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:33:08 +1000 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au> wrote:
>
> The original reported trace was during setup_system which is very early in
> the boot.

But, of course, that version didn't have the necessary extra dereference
of the function address ...

And the later debug patch did not check the address at register time,
only at notify time.

The later trace also looks to be early in the boot.
-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@...b.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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