Re: Oops in swsusp

From: Pavel Machek (pavel_at_suse.cz)
Date: 04/11/05

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    Date:	Mon, 11 Apr 2005 13:00:23 +0200
    To: Andreas Steinmetz <ast@domdv.de>
    
    

    Hi!

    > during testing of the encrypted swsusp_image on x86_64 I did get an Oops
    > from time to time at memcpy+11 called from swsusp_save+1090 which turns
    > out to be the memcpy in copy_data_pages() of swsusp.c.
    > The Oops is caused by a NULL pointer (I don't remember if it was source
    > or destination).
    > This Oops seems to be unrelated to the encrypted image addition as I
    > didn't touch any code in that area.

    Could you still try to reproduce without any patches? Alocating memory
    at wrong moment may cause something like that, and crypto routines
    might do that.
                                                                    Pavel

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