Re: potential NULL dereference in futex_wait_requeue_pi()

From: Darren Hart
Date: Wed Jul 18 2012 - 11:43:10 EST




On 07/18/2012 08:31 AM, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 05:25:14PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > Hi Darren,
> >
> > The patch 52400ba94675: "futex: add requeue_pi functionality" from
> > Apr 3, 2009, leads to the following warning:
> > kernel/futex.c:2373 futex_wait_requeue_pi()
> > error: potential NULL dereference 'pi_mutex'.
>
> This sounds like the oops I saw that I reported at https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/7/13/328

I'm looking into the report Dave sent today (delayed from piles of
urgent issues after returning from vacation, my apologies).

Dan, under which workload are you seeing this?

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Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
Yocto Project - Linux Kernel


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