RE: e1000e NVM corruption issue status

[Jiri Kosina]

On Mon, 29 Sep 2008, Jiri Kosina 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

Hmm, this happens even if I put the e1000e module completely out of way 
(and it happens when userspace is starting postfix), so it might be a 
completely separate issue.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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