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Date:	Thu, 16 Sep 2010 20:26:16 +0200
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To:	Simon Kirby <sim@...tway.ca>
Cc:	linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...e.de>,
	mark gross <markgross@...gnar.org>,
	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [linux-pm] [2.6.36-rc4/HEAD] unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference?(plist_add)

On Thursday, September 16, 2010, Simon Kirby wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 10:38:25PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> 
> > Hmm, interesting.  This looks like a plist corruption to me, but can you please
> > check (using gdb) what line of code corresponds to the address
> > plist_add+0x36/0xa0 ?
> 
> I ended up rebuilding since then, and I enabled a bunch of debugging
> stuff.  Does this help make it more obvious?  I'll try your other patch
> tonight, but I still don't get what's wrong with the existing code.

That's not necessary, since the https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17922
patch works for you.

Thanks,
Rafael
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