linux-kernel - Re: [Bug #13780] NULL pointer dereference loading powernowk8

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Date:	Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:01:41 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Kurt Roeckx <kurt@...ckx.be>
cc:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Kernel Testers <kernel-testers@...r.kernel.org>,
	Mark Langsdorf <mark.langsdorf@....com>,
	Naga Chumbalkar <nagananda.chumbalkar@...com>
Subject: Re: [Bug #13780] NULL pointer dereference loading powernowk8

On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Kurt Roeckx wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 04:45:37PM -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
> > On Thu, 10 Sep 2009, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > 
> > > > So I did a biset, and this is the result:
> > > > $ git bisect good
> > > > 0e64a0c982c06a6b8f5e2a7f29eb108fdf257b2f is first bad commit
> > 
> > 0e64a0c has this cleanup, which isn't equivalent to the previous code:
> 
> Please look at the patch I attached to the bug report.  There is
> other code that is not equivalent.  It's in comment #17:
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13780#c17
> 
> And the patch itself:
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=23048
> 
> This patch fixes my problem.
> 

Ah, I hadn't noticed you attached a patch there that fixes the issue for 
you.  Is it en-route to Dave Jones so that it can make its way upstream?
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