Re: [2.6.28] NULL pointer dereference at get_stats()

["KOSAKI Motohiro" <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>]

Hi

>> it doesn't have any network card initialization log, but kernel
>> crashed in network driver.
>> in addition, loaded module list indicate your network card is pcnet32,
>> but pcnet32 doesn't have
>> get_stats() function. (instead, it has pcnet32_get_stats() )
>
> I think pcnet32 is unrelated.
> It seems to me that the problem is loopback device.

my ia32 box can't reproduce your problem although loopback doesn't
depend on any hardware.
I suspect vmware issue.


>
> I added "init=/bin/bash" and tried below commands.
> ----------------------------------------
> # lsmod
> Module                  Size  Used by
> mptspi                 19208  1
> mptscsih               33152  1 mptspi
> mptbase                74084  2 mptspi,mptscsih
> scsi_transport_spi     23296  1 mptspi
> sd_mod                 27416  2
> scsi_mod              138260  4 mptspi,mptscsih,scsi_transport_spi,sd_mod
> ext3                  109576  1
> jbd                    43924  1 ext3
> uhci_hcd               22800  0
> ohci_hcd               23696  0
> ehci_hcd               33036  0