Re: Expect defunct, kill -9 panics kernel?

James Bottomley <[email protected]> Sat, 10 Feb 2007 19:50:07 -0600

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.ports.hppa
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On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 14:37 -0500, John David Anglin wrote:
> > 0x10 looks to be curr->func implying curr is NULL and thus the queue
> > task_list is corrupt.
> 
> Do you think it help to add a check in __wake_up for a NULL pointer?

I suppose so ... I'd really like someone to validate my guess though,
although an additional BUG_ON() can't hurt.

James