Re: [patch] scsi: fix crash in gdth_timeout()

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon Oct 15 2007 - 15:25:30 EST



* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > A further problem is probably that the GDTH timer is not stopped by a
> > failed GDTH probe?
>
> Indeed. Maybe this is a better fix?
>
> That driver is pretty messy, and this should have been found ealier.
> James? Boaz?

> @@ -5213,6 +5213,10 @@ static int __init gdth_init(void)
> #endif /* CONFIG_PCI */
>
> TRACE2(("gdth_detect() %d controller detected\n", gdth_ctr_count));
> +
> + if (list_empty(&gdth_instances))
> + return -ENODEV;

indeed - with this patch instead of the one i did the CONFIG_SCSI_GDTH=y
bzImage boots up fine too, and no crash:

Calling initcall 0x80a417e0: gdth_init+0x0/0xb20()
GDT-HA: Storage RAID Controller Driver. Version: 3.05
GDT-HA: Found 0 PCI Storage RAID Controllers
initcall 0x80a417e0: gdth_init+0x0/0xb20() returned -19.
initcall 0x80a417e0 ran for 5 msecs: gdth_init+0x0/0xb20()

Tested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>

Ingo
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