Paul Clements wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Bernd Schubert wrote:
> 
> > every time when nbd-client disconnects a nbd-device the decoded oops
> > from below will happen.
> > This only happens after we upgraded from 2.4.20 to 2.4.21,
> > so I guess the backported update from 2.5.50 causes this.

[snip]
 
> This corresponds to the following source:
> 
> lo->sock->ops->shutdown(lo->sock, SEND_SHUTDOWN|RCV_SHUTDOWN);
> 
> Somehow, lo->sock is NULL here. The only way I see that this could

Alright, looking back over the nbd-client source I now see what's going
on. You're calling "nbd-client -d" to manually disconnect?


> Would you be willing to test a patch against 2.4.21?

If you're willing to test the attached patch, I'd be grateful. Otherwise
I'll test it in the next few days and forward on to Marcelo...


Thanks,
Paul