Re: fs/pipe.c null pointer dereference

From: Frans Pop
Date: Wed Oct 14 2009 - 20:13:05 EST


On Thursday 15 October 2009, Earl Chew wrote:
> Frans Pop wrote:
> > 2.6.21 is really rather ancient for the kernel community and I doubt
> > anyone here will really want to look into issues with it, given that
> > there's a realistic chance it has already been fixed since then. The
> > current stable version is 2.6.31 after all.
> >
> > Can you reproduce the oops with a current kernel? Have you checked if
> > there have been any changes in the code you identified since 2.6.21?
>
> I was mostly after some guidance. I'm happy to dig around to figure
> out what the problem is and log a bug if indeed I find one.

OK. I'm afraid I can't help you there myself, but maybe with this
additional info someone else will.

Good luck with the hunt.
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