Re: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at00000002

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Tue Jul 29 2008 - 09:57:06 EST


On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:09:11 +0200
Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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).

it's a power saving feature that they very likely turn on by default...

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