netdev - Re: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000000000002c

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Message-ID: <1328253972.2480.42.camel@edumazet-laptop>
Date:	Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:26:12 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG <s.priebe@...fihost.ag>
Cc:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, jwboyer@...il.com,
	hch@...radead.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, david@...morbit.com,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, gregkh@...e.de
Subject: Re: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at
 000000000000002c

Le vendredi 03 février 2012 à 07:48 +0100, Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
a écrit :
> Am 03.02.2012 01:42, schrieb Greg KH:
> > On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 02:39:57PM -0500, David Miller wrote:
> >> From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
> >> Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:04:15 +0100
> >>
> >>> David, what do you think ?
> >>
> >> I frankly don't care at this point.
> >>
> >> The only reasonable thing is if someone can successfully do the
> >> backport, but if that's not possible there really isn't anything
> >> reasonable we can do, all the other options have fatal negative
> >> consequences which make them completely untenable.
> > 
> > I agree.  I'm pretty sure the distros basing their releases on 3.0 are
> > aware of this issue, so perhaps someone could dig through those tree and
> > see how they resolved this issue, if at all.
> > 
> I haven't found any distris which has backported something regarding
> this issue.
> 
> Also it seems that there's only Ubuntu using 3.0. Debian and others have
> already moved to 3.1 / 3.2. Anything i miss?
> 
> I've made my own backport of the patch and removed at least 1-2
> dependencies. Anybody interested?
> 

If you did the work, post it for review.

Thanks


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