Re: 2.1.130 Oops decoded. ATI fb?

Philipp Rumpf (prumpf@jcsbs.lanobis.de)
Fri, 27 Nov 1998 18:54:15 +0100


On Fri, Nov 27, 1998 at 04:34:41PM +0100, Romano Giannetti wrote:
> So it seems that the ATI framebuffer that introduces the problem. I

The bug is atyfb.c does not check the return value of ioremap(). If it
returns NULL, we will happily dereference that and get an Oops (like
Romano did).

I do not really know how to fix this. Would anyone with experience would
be so nice to look at my patch ?

Thanks in advance,

Philipp Rumpf

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