From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932451AbYGOUom (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:44:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1763504AbYGOUoJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:44:09 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:48528 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753019AbYGOUoI (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:44:08 -0400 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:44:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20080715.134407.150543177.davem@davemloft.net> To: mingo@elte.hu Cc: nhorman@tuxdriver.com, simon@fire.lp0.eu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au Subject: Re: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000000000000e (reset_prng_context) From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20080715113304.GA30565@elte.hu> References: <487BE071.80101@simon.arlott.org.uk> <20080715020428.GA27463@hmsendeavour.rdu.redhat.com> <20080715113304.GA30565@elte.hu> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.2 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Ingo Molnar Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:33:04 +0200 > i have just triggered this crash too. Please, when you know about bootup > crashes in your code send a patch to the lkml thread so that people can > apply it and have a working system. > > Note that the new crypto/prng.c driver has very bad quality: > > total: 45 errors, 21 warnings, 1 checks, 410 lines checked > > It has tons of completely unacceptable code mistakes in it. I think we should merge new drivers as aggressively as possible.