Re: NULL pointer dereference in cgroup

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Mon Mar 13 2017 - 13:05:10 EST


Hello,

On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 06:46:16PM +0000, Luis Henriques wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've seen this only once, and can't reproduce it. But here it is anyway:
>
> https://postimg.org/image/pn94k1yov
>
> (Not sure png files are accepted on LKML.)
>
> This occurred in a VM while booting 4.11.0-rc1

It was trying to migrate a process and encountered a NULL deref while
trying to find the destination css_set. Unfortunately, it's difficult
to tell what went wrong with just the posted backtrace. If you built
the kernel with debuginfo, the output of addr2line could help quite a
bit.

Thanks.

--
tejun