linux-kernel - Re: crash by cdc_acm driver in kernels 4.8-rc1/5

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Date:   Thu, 06 Oct 2016 12:53:30 +0200
From:   Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.com>
To:     wim@....tudelft.nl
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: crash by cdc_acm driver in kernels 4.8-rc1/5

On Thu, 2016-09-29 at 15:26 +0200, Wim Osterholt wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 05:23:30PM +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> > > 
> > > HP src # sync
> > > HP src # [ 3744.914184] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000249
> > 
> > The last view lines before that please with the debugging level ramped
> > up to 9 please.
> 
> Recompiled again, double checked if it was really the new module.
> That doesn't seem to make any difference at all.

Hi,

sorry for the delay. Your results are strange and we will have to do it
the hard way. Could you retest with the attached patch applied
in addition to the last patch I sent?
I can see no good reason for a crash where you see a crash, so brute
force is called for.

	Regards
		Oliver


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