Bug 23172
Summary: | BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null) | ||
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Product: | Drivers | Reporter: | James Tan (jameztcc) |
Component: | Video(DRI - Intel) | Assignee: | drivers_video-dri-intel (drivers_video-dri-intel) |
Status: | CLOSED CODE_FIX | ||
Severity: | blocking | CC: | akpm, chris, florian, nettxzl, subhashis3 |
Priority: | P1 | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Kernel Version: | 2.6.35, 2.6.36 | Subsystem: | |
Regression: | No | Bisected commit-id: | |
Attachments: | Test for an initialised ringbuffer before use. |
Description
James Tan
2010-11-18 07:05:28 UTC
*** Bug 19892 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 23702 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Created attachment 44062 [details]
Test for an initialised ringbuffer before use.
Applied to -fixes and pull request duly sent: commit e8616b6ced6137085e6657cc63bc2fe3900b8616 Author: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Date: Thu Jan 20 09:57:11 2011 +0000 drm/i915: Initialise ring vfuncs for old DRI paths We weren't setting up the vfunc table when initialising the old DRI ringbuffer, leading to such OOPSes as: ... |