Re: BUG: NULL pointer dereference in shmem_evict_inode()

[Fengguang Wu]

On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 06:49:52PM -0700, John Stultz wrote:
> On 08/20/2012 06:40 PM, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> >On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 06:15:00PM -0700, John Stultz wrote:
> >>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.
> >Ah ok, looking back into the logs, I didn't find v3.6-rc2 being
> >tested. Sorry I should have confused it with another bug.
> >
> >I'll test v3.6-rc2.
> Ok. If v3.6-rc2 doesn't show the problem that would make me feel a
> bit better that Ingo's fix is the one that is resolving this for
> you.

Got the results: v3.6-rc2 tests fine. So it's a fixed problem in the upstream.

Sorry for the noises!

Thanks,
Fengguang
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