From: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Regression - 2.6.24-rc3 - umem nvram card driver oops
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 13:20:15 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071204022015.GX119954183@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18260.39892.215075.795664@notabene.brown>
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 11:14:12AM +1100, Neil Brown wrote:
> On Tuesday December 4, dgc@sgi.com wrote:
> > Neil,
> >
> > I just upgraded an ia64 (Altix, 16k page size) test box to 2.6.24-rc3
> > from 2.6.23 and I get it panicing on boot in the umem driver.
>
> Cool - someone is using umem! And even testing it. Thanks!
>
> A quick look shows a probable NULL deref. Let me know if this fixes
> it. I'll read through the offending patch more carefully and make
> sure there is nothing else wrong.
Yeah, that appears to fix the problem.
Tested-by: Dave Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Cheers,
Dave.
--
Dave Chinner
Principal Engineer
SGI Australian Software Group
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-04 2:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-03 21:35 Regression - 2.6.24-rc3 - umem nvram card driver oops David Chinner
2007-12-04 0:14 ` Neil Brown
2007-12-04 2:20 ` David Chinner [this message]
2007-12-04 2:48 ` Neil Brown
2007-12-04 9:37 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-16 21:15 ` [PATCH] umem nvram driver: clean up style Randy Dunlap
2007-12-16 21:55 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2007-12-17 0:49 ` Randy Dunlap
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