Re: [crash, bisected] net, sky2: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULLpointer dereference, pci_vpd_truncate()

[Ingo Molnar]

* Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Not sure whether this has been reported before, but one of the 
> -tip testboxes started showing the boot crash attached below. 
> Reproduces with latest -git.
> 
> I have bisected it to:
> 
> | installing & booting kernel ... => good. (114 seconds)
> | 3834507d0c5480a0f05486c2fb57ed18fd179a83 is first bad commit
> | commit 3834507d0c5480a0f05486c2fb57ed18fd179a83
> | Author: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxxxx>
> | Date:   Tue Feb 3 11:27:30 2009 +0000
> |
> |     sky2: set VPD size
> |    
> |     Read configuration register during probe and use it to size the
> |     available VPD. Move existing code using same register slightly
> |     earlier in probe handling.
> 
> [ I'm testing the straight revert currently. Can send more info if 
>   needed. ]

The revert solved the crash.

	Ingo
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