Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 9 Jun 2008 08:58:18 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [bug, 2.6.26-rc4/rc5] sporadic bootup crashes in blk_lookup_devt()/prepare_namespace() |
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On Mon, 9 Jun 2008, Kay Sievers wrote: > > I think we should keep the patch, as it fixed a different issue, and it > seems the bug was there even before the patch - the function was just > not called 3 times, so even more unlikely to trigger it.
No, before the patch we never did a "dev_to_disk()" on the device. We just did
if (strcmp(dev->bus_id, name) == 0) { devt = dev->devt; break; }
and we simply didn't care if it was a disk or a partition - it would work correctly for both.
Your patch made it simply not work for partitions at all (by dereferencing an illegal address off them). My fix makes it ignore partitions entirely, but I'm a bit nervous that there might be some setup that sets up *only* partitions, not any base device at all. I guess that is unlikely, but it worries me a bit.
Linus
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