On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 13:35 +0200, Duetsch, Thomas LDE1 wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm currently working on a custom kernel based on Ingo's -rt patch
> (2.6.16-rt29).
>
> While rebooting my machine, I came across a kernel null pointer
> dereference in this code segment in fs/sysfs/dir.c, function
> sysfs_readdir():
>
> for (p=q->next; p!= &parent_sd->s_children; p=p->next) {
> struct sysfs_dirent *next;
> const char * name;
> int len;
>
> next = list_entry(p, struct sysfs_dirent,
> s_sibling);
> if (!next->s_element)
> continue;
>
> name = sysfs_get_name(next);
> len = strlen(name);
> if (next->s_dentry)
> PROBLEM -> ino = next->s_dentry->d_inode->i_ino;
> else
> ino = iunique(sysfs_sb, 2);
>
Hi Thomas,
Do you have a backtrace to look at? It might be helpful to see what
functions brought us to this point. Also it might help to determine if
the problem is vanilla, -rt, or the custom kernel.
Thanks,
-- Steve
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