Re: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in qla2x00_read_nvram_data

From: Dave Young
Date: Tue Aug 07 2007 - 02:56:19 EST


>On 8/7/07, Zhang, Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 11:21 +0800, Zhang, Yanmin wrote:
> > Did someone see the same issue? My machine has a qla fiber card.
> >
> > This error is triggered because parameter buf of qla2x00_read_nvram_data
> > is 0.
> Sorry for missing kernel info. I used kernel 2.6.23-rc2. My machine is
> a x86_64, but I installed i386 os on it.
>
> If I disable CONFIG_SCSI_QLOGIC_1280 and CONFIG_SCSI_QLA_FC in kernel config,
> kernel could boot.
Hi,
what version of kernel do you use?
I read the code, maybe 23-rc1-mm2 fixed the bug.
-mm2 add the code to alloc nvram buffer.

Regards
dave
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