Re: NULL pointer dereference in sysfs_readdir

[Stefan Richter]

Michael Buesch wrote:
> On Saturday 21 October 2006 10:43, Stefan Richter wrote:
...
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=188140
...
> Looking through the code I was not able to locate the exact line
> at which it oopses, with the above oops message.
> Are you able to track down the exact pointer dereference, which causes
> this? By inserting printks, perhaps.

I need the original reporter to do this since I cannot reproduce the
bug. Probably because I don't have an SMP machine yet.

> Maybe FC changed some of the structures. I couldn't find
> a used structure with an interresting member at offset 00000020, at least.

Could be struct sysfs_dirent.s_dentry if I'm counting correctly in
http://www.linux-m32r.org/lxr/http/source/include/linux/sysfs.h?v=2.6.16#L68
The trace was from 2.6.16.
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Stefan Richter
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