Bug#509338: NULL pointer dereference in psmouse

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

found 509338 linux-2.6/2.6.30-3
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Hi Joachim,

In 2008, Joachim Breitner wrote:

> I just got a NULL-pointer-dereference:
>
> [  672.170484] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000000
> [  672.170494] IP: [<ffffffffa023a03d>] synaptics_reconnect+0x20/0x9d [psmouse]
[...]
> Note that I’m affected by this bug:
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8740

In 2010, upstream you wrote:

> On
> $ uname -a
> Linux kirk 2.6.36-rc6-amd64 #1 SMP Mon Oct 4 09:56:45 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> I still observer some issues:
>
> [   52.011328] psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 1
> [   52.011332] psmouse.c: issuing reconnect request

Do you still have access to this system?  Are you still having trouble
with its touchpad, and if so, what is the nature of the trouble these
days?

Thanks and sorry for the trouble,
Jonathan