On Wed, 2012-12-12 at 13:44 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:

The function rb_set_head_page() searches the list of ring buffer
pages for a the page that has the HEAD page flag set. If it does
not find it, it will do a WARN_ON(), disable the ring buffer and
return NULL, as this should never happen.

But if this bug happens to happen, not all callers of this function
can handle a NULL pointer being returned from it. That needs to be
fixed.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.0+
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

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Queued up for 3.2, thanks.

Ben.

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