Re: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in __list_del_entry_valid

From: Dmitry Vyukov
Date: Tue Dec 19 2017 - 08:39:01 EST


On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 2:22 PM, Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue 19-12-17 14:12:38, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 2:03 PM, Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Can we silence this duplicates [1] please?
>> >
>> > [1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/001a1140f57806ebef05608b25a5@xxxxxxxxxx
>>
>> Hi Michal,
>>
>> What exactly do you mean?
>>
>> These 2 are the same email with the same Message-ID just on different
>> mailing lists. I don't see anything wrong here.
>
> Hmm the other one has Message-id: 001a1140f57806ebef05608b25a5@xxxxxxxxxx
> while this one has 001a11452568f5857c0560b0dc0e@xxxxxxxxxx

Ah, I see.
These are reported separately because the crashes are titled
differently. Kernel titled one as "general protection fault" and
another as "BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference".
What algorithm do you propose to use to merge them?