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Re: [Merge tag 'pci-v4.12-changes' of git] 857f864014: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000000000a8

From Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [Merge tag 'pci-v4.12-changes' of git] 857f864014: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000000000a8
Date 2017-06-13 18:30 +0200
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On 12/06/17 10:35 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> Or better yet, just turn all char major allocations into dynamic, which
> would be really good for test systems.  I thought someone proposed
> patches for that a long time ago, but I can't find them anymore.  That
> would be the simplest solution here.

Would people not complain about that? I would not be surprised if some
crazy application is using hard coded major numbers in userspace. So
such a change could potentially break userspace...

Logan

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Re: [Merge tag 'pci-v4.12-changes' of git] 857f864014: BUG: unable  to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000000000a8 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-06-13 06:20 +0200
  Re: [Merge tag 'pci-v4.12-changes' of git] 857f864014: BUG: unable to  handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000000000a8 Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com> - 2017-06-13 06:30 +0200
    Re: [Merge tag 'pci-v4.12-changes' of git] 857f864014: BUG: unable  to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000000000a8 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-06-13 06:40 +0200
      Re: [Merge tag 'pci-v4.12-changes' of git] 857f864014: BUG: unable to  handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000000000a8 Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com> - 2017-06-13 18:30 +0200
        Re: [Merge tag 'pci-v4.12-changes' of git] 857f864014: BUG: unable  to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000000000a8 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-06-13 18:40 +0200
          Re: [Merge tag 'pci-v4.12-changes' of git] 857f864014: BUG: unable to  handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000000000a8 Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com> - 2017-06-13 19:50 +0200
            Re: [Merge tag 'pci-v4.12-changes' of git] 857f864014: BUG: unable  to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000000000a8 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-06-14 07:10 +0200
              Re: [Merge tag 'pci-v4.12-changes' of git] 857f864014: BUG: unable to  handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000000000a8 Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com> - 2017-06-14 08:00 +0200
          Re: [Merge tag 'pci-v4.12-changes' of git] 857f864014: BUG: unable  to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000000000a8 Sven-Haegar Koch <haegar@sdinet.de> - 2017-06-13 21:30 +0200
            Re: [Merge tag 'pci-v4.12-changes' of git] 857f864014: BUG: unable  to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000000000a8 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-06-14 07:10 +0200
    Re: [Merge tag 'pci-v4.12-changes' of git] 857f864014: BUG: unable  to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000000000a8 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-06-13 06:40 +0200
      Re: [Merge tag 'pci-v4.12-changes' of git] 857f864014: BUG: unable to  handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000000000a8 Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> - 2017-06-14 12:00 +0200
        Re: [Merge tag 'pci-v4.12-changes' of git] 857f864014: BUG: unable to  handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000000000a8 Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com> - 2017-06-14 18:00 +0200

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