Re: partition sysfs OOPS in current GIT

From: David Miller
Date: Thu Feb 07 2008 - 01:05:26 EST


From: Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 21:47:38 -0800

> On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 08:06:18PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> > I redid the bisect to make sure it absolutely was that specific
> > changeset, and it is.
>
> Thanks for doing that, I'll let you know when I have a patch to test.

I found the problem, it's the "whole_disk" partition attribute.

Look in fs/partitions/check.c:add_partition() where it tests the
ADDPART_FLAG_WHOLEDISK flag.

I think that code block needs to be updated to match the rest of the
changes in the offending changeset we are discussing.
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