linux-kernel - Re: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at NULL while resuming

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0906101010260.3210-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>
Date:	Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:11:36 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	Francis Moreau <francis.moro@...il.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Daniel Mack <daniel@...aq.de>
Subject: Re: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at NULL
 while  resuming

On Tue, 9 Jun 2009, Andrew Morton wrote:

> On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 09:28:18 +0200 Francis Moreau <francis.moro@...il.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hello
> > 
> > I've been hit by this bug while resuming my system (after a suspend to
> > disk), see the trace below.

> The trace is the same as the one reported by Daniel in the thread
> titled "BUG: NULL pointer dereference in try_to_del_timer_sync()",
> started April 28.
> 
> Alan's patch (below) is in mainline and appears to be lined up for the
> next 2.5.29.x release.

It turns out that David Woodhouse's "Fix oops on close of hot-unplugged 
FTDI serial converter" patch is also needed (it's in 2.6.30).

Alan Stern

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