Re: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000002

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Tue Jul 29 2008 - 08:09:27 EST


On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 06:22:15AM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 00:26 +0200, Frederik Deweerdt wrote:
> > Hello Aneesh,
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 03:23:17PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> > > [ 163.378265] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000002
> > > [ 163.378276] IP: [<c0124933>] sched_power_savings_store+0x13/0x70
> >
> > Does the attached patch solve the problem?
>
> Patch seems to have missed the boat for rc1 too.

Hmm. I'll resend.

BTW i think it's clearly a bug that distributions are even accessing
that file. It doesn't make any sense in the context they are using
it (like at every boot).

-Andi

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