Messages in this thread Patch in this message |  | | Date | Thu, 7 Jun 2001 16:36:40 +0200 (MET DST) | From | Andries.Brouwer@cwi ... | Subject | Re: 2.4.5-ac9 console NULL pointer pointer dereference |
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From: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
this happend with 2.4.5-ac9 with serial console on i386.
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference0x02f8 (irq = 3) at virtual address 00000004 Oops: 0000 >>EIP; c01967c7 <poke_blanked_console+1b/5c> <=====
Sounds like this should help:
--- console.c~ Fri Feb 9 20:30:22 2001 +++ console.c Thu Jun 7 16:28:59 2001 @@ -2684,7 +2684,7 @@ void poke_blanked_console(void) { del_timer(&console_timer); /* Can't use _sync here: called from tasklet */ - if (vt_cons[fg_console]->vc_mode == KD_GRAPHICS) + if (!vt_cons[fg_console] || vt_cons[fg_console]->vc_mode == KD_GRAPHICS) return; if (console_blanked) { console_timer.function = unblank_screen_t; Andries - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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