> Greg, in principle this should go to -stable.  However, it looks like 
> this might break some applications that currently sort-of work, even 
> though they shouldn't.  Therefore we have decided not to mark this 
> patch for -stable at present.

This means leaving three longterm branches with a known panic trigger.

Maybe an explicit check for NULL and LIST_POISON would be a cheap way to
kill the bug and have it too. These two are the only wrong values those
pointers can ever get.

Regards,
MP
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