Re: BUG: NULL pointer dereference in shmem_evict_inode()

[John Stultz]

On 08/20/2012 06:10 PM, John Stultz wrote:
> On 08/20/2012 06:04 PM, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> > Hi John,
> >
> > The below oops happens in v3.5..v3.6-rc2 and it's bisected down to 
> > commit
> > 2a8c0883c ("time: Move xtime_nsec adjustment underflow handling 
> > timekeeping_adjust").
> >
> > However linux-next is working fine. Do you have any fixes not yet 
> > sent to Linus?
> Yea, there's a fix pending in tip/timers/urgent 
> (4e8b14526ca7fb046a81c94002c1c43b6fdf0e9b) to catch crazy values from 
> settimeofday or the cmos clock that might overflow a ktime_t.
>
> Out of curiosity, how are you triggering/reproducing this?

Looking at the commit you pointed out, it seems more likely Ingo's fix 
(1d17d17484d40f2d5b35c79518597a2b25296996) might be related, but that 
should have landed in v3.6-rc2.  So I'm not sure.

thanks
-john


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