Re: Regression - 2.6.24-rc3 - umem nvram card driver oops

From: David Chinner
Date: Mon Dec 03 2007 - 21:20:41 EST


On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 11:14:12AM +1100, Neil Brown wrote:
> On Tuesday December 4, dgc@xxxxxxx wrote:
> > Neil,
> >
> > I just upgraded an ia64 (Altix, 16k page size) test box to 2.6.24-rc3
> > from 2.6.23 and I get it panicing on boot in the umem driver.
>
> Cool - someone is using umem! And even testing it. Thanks!
>
> A quick look shows a probable NULL deref. Let me know if this fixes
> it. I'll read through the offending patch more carefully and make
> sure there is nothing else wrong.

Yeah, that appears to fix the problem.

Tested-by: Dave Chinner <dgc@xxxxxxx>

Cheers,

Dave.
--
Dave Chinner
Principal Engineer
SGI Australian Software Group
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/