Bug 231219

Summary: devel/ia64: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereferrence
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Jarod Wilson <jarod>
Component: kernelAssignee: Prarit Bhargava <prarit>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Version: rawhideCC: agriffis, gbeshers, luyu, prarit
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OS: Linux   
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Serial console output from kernel panic
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Description Jarod Wilson 2007-03-06 20:10:38 UTC 
Description of problem:
Kernel 2.6.20-1.2966.fc7 fails to boot an installed ia64 system, hitting a NULL
pointer deref, as per the output attached to the bug.
Comment 1 Jarod Wilson 2007-03-06 20:10:38 UTC 
Created attachment 149375 [details]
Serial console output from kernel panic
Comment 2 Prarit Bhargava 2007-03-07 16:51:30 UTC 
Happens in 2.6.21-rc3 (latest upstream) as well.

P.
Comment 3 Prarit Bhargava 2007-03-08 14:33:46 UTC 
I was just about to post a patch to linux-ia64 when I noticed that Tony Luck
beat me to it :)

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-ia64&m=117331002917810&w=2

Testing with his patch which includes sn specific changes.

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Comment 4 Prarit Bhargava 2007-03-08 14:39:29 UTC 
Created attachment 149566 [details]
Fix for this issue

Cleanly applies to current rawhide.