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Subject: Re: vfs-scalability: odd null pointer issue in link_path_walk
From: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
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On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 16:13 -0800, john stultz wrote:
> Hey Nick,
> 	So yesterday I came across an odd null pointer oops in link_path_walk:

Sorry. That's not as clear as I wanted it to be, it was a *boot-time*
null pointer oops. 

thanks
-john