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From: Tristan Gingold <Tristan.Gingold@bull.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xencons missing string allocation
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 11:40:24 +0200
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Le Vendredi 09 D=C3=A9cembre 2005 19:37, Alex Williamson a =C3=A9crit :
>    I was trying to boot dom0 w/ "xencons=3DttyS1 console=3DttyS1".  It gi=
ves
> some weird error messages:
>
> Warning: dev (ttyS2) tty->count(2) !=3D #fd's(1) in release_dev
> Warning: dev (ttyS2) tty->count(3) !=3D #fd's(1) in tty_open
>
> And blows up with a page fault.  The page fault is because we don't
> actually allocate a buffer for the tty driver name.  The patch below
> fixes that problem.  Using xencons=3DttyS1 still doesn't quite work and
> prints lots of the above error messages, but at least it doesn't crash
> dom0 now.  Patch vs xen-unstable.hg.  Thanks,
Why not using a static buffer ?

Tristan.