RE: e1000e NVM corruption issue status

[Jiri Kosina]

On Mon, 29 Sep 2008, Brandeburg, Jesse wrote:

> > We are missing 'break;' after the memset, and that is where the
> > hanging machine comes from (the loop keeps spinning forever), right?
> > I will verify this right away.
> Yep, I think you're right.  I'm almost done prepping our current patch
> series, I'll include that fix.  Please let me know if your test shows it
> fixes it.

Yes, it fixed the hang. It crashed later though

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000050
IP: [<ffffffffa045211b>] inet6_net_init+0x98/0xf2 [ipv6]
PGD 39d15067 PUD 39d14067 PMD 0
Oops: 0000 [1] SMP
last sysfs file: 
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:15:00.0/0000:16:00.0/local_cpus

which is probably related I guess.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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