Re: partition sysfs OOPS in current GIT
From: Greg KH
Date: Thu Feb 07 2008 - 01:37:52 EST
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 10:05:44PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> 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.
I don't understand that code at all, on 2.6.24, what does reading that
file give you? At first glance, I don't see how that file would spit
out anything and not give you the same kind of oops.
you are in a maze of kobject pointers, all alike...
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