Re: -tip: origin tree boot crash

[Len Brown]

On Sat, 26 Dec 2009, Len Brown wrote:

> > [   28.643216] evbug.c: Connected device: input1 (Dell WMI hotkeys at wmi/input0)
> > [   28.650449] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000014
> > [   28.654439] IP: [<c17f7f21>] wmi_install_notify_handler+0x31/0x70
> 
> Rather than reverting the broken patch that caused wmi to load,
> does applying this patch to deal with the broken error handling
> cause the oops to go away?

> Subject: [PATCH] Revert "wmi: Free the allocated acpi objects through wmi_get_event_data"
> 
> This reverts commit 3e9b988e4edf065d39c1343937f717319b1c1065.

These kfree's look correct, assuming we properly check
the return status.  So perhaps instead you can test
the patch below?

thanks,
-Len