Bug#499386: [etch] NULL pointer dereference in sys_exit_group

[Shai Berger <shai@platonix.com>]

Hi Jonathan, 

On Monday, April 23, 2012 10:40:22 AM Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Four years ago, you wrote[1]:
> 
> Alas, we missed this and then lost track of it.
> 
> Now I am curious:
> 
>  - do you still have access to this machine?
>  - did you ever figure out what was causing the kernel panics?  was
>    there a workaround or fix?
>  - was the backtrace always the same when the bug was encountered?
> 
> If you can still reproduce this, I would be especially interested to
> learn whether squeeze or wheezy is affected, so we can make sure it
> gets fixed.
> 
> Sorry for the trouble, and thanks for reporting it.
> 

Sorry, the old box has long been decommissioned. Next time I'm in the office, 
I'll try to see if it still exists physically, but I doubt it.

Per your questions:
* In most kernel crashes, I could find nothing in the log.
* I never figured out the cause, or a workaround preventing the crashes.

Eventually, we got tired of resetting it manually a-couple-times-a-month, and 
shilled a couple dozen bucks for a router box.

Thanks for following up after all this time,

Shai.