Re: [2.6.9] HPT372N - oops (NULL pointer dereference)

From: Ronald Wahl
Date: Fri Oct 22 2004 - 18:30:28 EST


On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 23:11:20 +0200, Ronald Wahl wrote:

> Hello,
> I just tried upgrading from 2.6.7 to 2.6.9 and got a kernel oops during
> boot. Stack trace looked very similar to the one João Luis Meloni Assirati
> reported on Oct 05 2004 (Subject: hpt366 under hpt372N oops). I have a
> HPT372N on my board with one disk attached.

> Is there any news on this issue yet? It keeps me from using 2.6.9. :-/

Since no one seems to care about it I had a quick look by myself into
drivers/ide/pci/hpt366.c:

For the HPT372N pci_get_drvdata(dev) will return NULL and this will
result in an oops during pci_bus_clock_list() which is called from
hpt372_tune_chipset().

- ron
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