Re: [crash] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereferenceat 0000000000000370

From: David Miller
Date: Mon Jul 21 2008 - 16:16:20 EST


From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:47:58 -0700 (PDT)

> On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, Larry Finger wrote:
> > With an invalid opcode, mine is likely due to stack corruption.
>
> No, invalid opcode is because we use the "ud2" instruction for BUG(),
> which causes an invalid op exception. So any BUG[_ON]() will always cause
> that on x86.

Is there really no more backtrace from that crash message?
It would tell me what driver it's in.

There is some "comm: b43" in the log so I'll check that one.
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