Invoke vpanic inside xpanic function xpanic must invoke the worker routine vpanic to perform the erstwhile panic related function. Instead it erroneously invokes xpanic (recursively) which needs to be fixed. Signed-off-by: K.Prasad <prasad at linux.vnet.ibm.com> --- kernel/panic.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: linux-2.6.slim_kdump/kernel/panic.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.slim_kdump.orig/kernel/panic.c +++ linux-2.6.slim_kdump/kernel/panic.c @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ NORET_TYPE void xpanic(enum panic_flags { va_list ap; va_start(ap, fmt); - xpanic(flags, timeout, fmt, ap); + vpanic(flags, timeout, fmt, ap); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(xpanic);