From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754449Ab0IAVZM (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Sep 2010 17:25:12 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:44427 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751905Ab0IAVZL (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Sep 2010 17:25:11 -0400 Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:25:28 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20100901.142528.180418526.davem@davemloft.net> To: eric.dumazet@gmail.com Cc: mingo@elte.hu, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mst@redhat.com, tj@kernel.org Subject: Re: vhost_dev_cleanup() crash: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <1283256357.2550.61.camel@edumazet-laptop> References: <1283251801.2550.53.camel@edumazet-laptop> <20100831111413.GB12853@elte.hu> <1283256357.2550.61.camel@edumazet-laptop> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.3 on Emacs 23.1 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) 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: Eric Dumazet Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:05:57 +0200 > [PATCH v2] vhost: stop worker only if created > > Its currently illegal to call kthread_stop(NULL) > > Reported-by: Ingo Molnar > Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet I'll apply this thanks Eric.