Re: Latest git oopses during boot

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Harald Arnesen wrote:
> >
> > Can you do a
> >
> >         make drivers/scsi/advansys.lst
> >
> > and see what it should be?
> 
> Anyway, here it is, as an attachment.

Ok, I was wrong. The code really *does* compile to that insane

	a3 14 00 00 00          mov    %eax,0x14

by your compiler.

That's the

	asc_dvc_varp->overrun_buf = kzalloc(ASC_OVERRUN_BSIZE, GFP_KERNEL);

thing, and gcc seems to have decided that it can statically prove that 
asc_dvc_varp is NULL.

Quite frankly, I don't see that being true. But you have some patches in 
your tree that I haven't followed, so.. Are you sure the patches applied 
to the right spot? The patch I saw added that kzalloc() to the _end_ of 
the function (long after asc_dvc_varp was initialized), maybe that one got 
mis-applied?

Or maybe your compiler version is simply totally broken.

			Linus
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