From: mpevans@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark Evans) Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: 0.98.pl2 is out Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1992 10:11:09 GMT
torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds) writes:
> - various minor mm fixes by me: trapping kernel NULL dereferences,
> cleaning up the page table initializations and the 16MB patches, and
> various other bugfixes. get_free_page(GFP_ATOMIC) should preserve
> the interrupt flag, so malloc() should be safe now - hopefully no
> more of the tcp/ip memory management problems.
> The NULL pointer trapping may result in errors like:
> Unable to handle kernel paging request at address C0000???
> Oops: 0000
> ..... debugging info .....
> There were several NULL pointer dereferences in the serial and tty
> drivers, which should now be fixed. I've also fixed any other errors
> I've seen, but if there are problems in the scsi drivers or similar
> things I cannot test, I'd like to hear about them.
Is there a simple way to turn this NULL pointer trapping off?
So I have a machine I can login to
login: root
Unable....
is not much use.