From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752497AbYJSVZc (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Oct 2008 17:25:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751864AbYJSVZZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Oct 2008 17:25:25 -0400 Received: from x35.xmailserver.org ([64.71.152.41]:37706 "EHLO x35.xmailserver.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751858AbYJSVZZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Oct 2008 17:25:25 -0400 X-AuthUser: davidel@xmailserver.org Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 14:25:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Davide Libenzi X-X-Sender: davide@alien.or.mcafeemobile.com To: Ben Castricum cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: NULL pointer derefence since 2.6.27 in (e)poll In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: X-GPG-FINGRPRINT: CFAE 5BEE FD36 F65E E640 56FE 0974 BF23 270F 474E X-GPG-PUBLIC_KEY: http://www.xmailserver.org/davidel.asc MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 19 Oct 2008, Ben Castricum wrote: > On Sun, 19 Oct 2008, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > > Isn't it the issue fixed by > > > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=122428548613067&w=2 > > I am not sure, below is the latest bug message. My knowledge of git is very > limited, how can I tell if this is before or after the patch? You get the patch that is inside the message above, you apply it to the kernel source, you rebuild it, and see if it does it again. - Davide