netdev - Re: Fw: [PACKET]: Fix /proc/net/packet crash due to bogus private pointer

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Date:	Sun, 16 Dec 2007 16:19:36 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Miles Lane <miles.lane@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Fw: [PACKET]: Fix /proc/net/packet crash due to bogus private pointer

On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 11:56:04PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 01:37:01 -0500 "Miles Lane" <miles.lane@...il.com> wrote:
> 
> > > On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 11:07:07AM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:

So I posted this patch after 19:00 PST on 15 Dec.

> > Dec 15 13:44:39 syntropy kernel:  #0:  (&p->lock){--..}, at:
> > [crypto_algapi:seq_read+0x25/0x191c1] seq_read+0x25/0x26f
> 
> So your kernel is still feeding garbage into lockdep.
> 
> Are you really really sure that kernel had Herbert's patch applied?

The above log message is stamped as 13:44 PST.  I gotta say
this doesn't look good :)

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