Re: No kernel oops?

Ingo Molnar (mingo@pc5829.hil.siemens.at)
Thu, 8 May 1997 17:43:30 +0200 (MET DST)


On Thu, 8 May 1997, Rogier Wolff wrote:

> In a device driver that I am writing I have something like:
>
> int zr_read (struct virgo_s *board, int reg)
> {
> return ((int *)board->base)[reg/4];
> }
>
>
> As an unfortunate accident, I was calling this with "board == NULL".
> I had expected to see an kernel OOPS. when this happened. None
> of this: it simply returned a memory location.
>
> The virgo_s has "base" as its first element.
>
> Anybody know why I didn't see an oops?

what was the value of 'reg' ? I guess if the memory location is bigger
than 4096 then the bug wont get noticed by zero page.

-- mingo