Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 6 Feb 2008 22:38:03 -0800 | | From | Greg KH <> | | Subject | Re: partition sysfs OOPS in current GIT |
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 10:05:44PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>> Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 21:47:38 -0800> > > On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 08:06:18PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> > > I redid the bisect to make sure it absolutely was that specific
> > > changeset, and it is.> > > > Thanks for doing that, I'll let you know when I have a patch to test.> > I found the problem, it's the "whole_disk" partition attribute.
>
> Look in fs/partitions/check.c:add_partition() where it tests the
> ADDPART_FLAG_WHOLEDISK flag.
>
> I think that code block needs to be updated to match the rest of the
> changes in the offending changeset we are discussing.
Ah, great catch. That code just looks wrong.
I'm guessing that you have a partition that is the whole disk? That
would make sense why I and most others haven't seen this yet.
I'll make up a patch...
thanks a lot for still digging into this,
greg k-h
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