> The error response is clear. Are any software developments efforts expected > to clean-up the call stack for unwanted null pointers even more? I found the original patch and looked at the call sites. None of them calls dump_stack. The behavior is thus not the same. With your change, something that was previously treated in an orderly manner will be converted to something that looks like an oops. I assume that the cost of the dump_stack will also be huge. julia -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html