[parisc-linux] Expect defunct, kill -9 panics kernel?

[Carlos O'Donell]

On 2/11/07, Carlos O'Donell <carlos at systemhalted.org> wrote:
> The faulting instruction is:
>   74:   52 82 00 20     ldd 10(r20),rp
>
> Which is just before the curr->func call.
>   78:   e8 40 f0 00     bve,l (rp),rp
>   7c:   52 9b 00 30     ldd 18(r20),dp
>
> So your assumption was correct. The value of curr->func is null.
> How did the list get corrupted?

... to be precise, the faulting instruction is the break at 0x10 that
we use for null pointer dereferences.

c.