Re: ide oops

mlord (mlord@pobox.com)
Thu, 09 Apr 1998 23:27:34 -0400

Kevin Fenzi wrote:
>
> Not sure if this will be of any use, but I thought I would mention
> it, since people are looking at the ide code...
>
> I was poking around /proc/ide/ide0/ and tried to do a:
>
> cat /proc/ide/ide0/config
>
> and got the following oops:
>
> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000010
> current->tss.cr3 = 04241000, %cr3 = 04241000
...
> Likely this is just another case of ide not being smp safe yet. ;)

Could be due to the PCI problems in 2.1.93:
Does /proc/bus/ contain anything on your system?

I've fixed a number of things (new IDE patch out today),
and added safeguards to that specific function to protect
against funky PCI data structures.

-- 
mlord@pobox.com
The Linux IDE guy


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