Bug#635344: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

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Hi,

Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote:

> Today I did an upgrade to latest the Kernel release and after a short time
> had the system stopped with this:
>
> BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000000000a0
[...]
> Pid: 2738, comm: chromium Tainted: G           O 3.0.0-1-amd64 #1 Itautec S.A. Infoway/SM 3321

This is not the first oops.  So:

[...]
> And I am in doubt now if #635344 isn't the same problem that I am
> seeing now (unfortunately I don't remember if I was using a remote
> share when this happened).

Yes, I suspect the oops in #635344 is fallout from the same cause as
bug#637436.  Thanks for a useful reminder.