Messages in this thread | | | From | Logan Gunthorpe <> | Date | Tue, 13 Jun 2017 10:25:40 -0600 | Subject | Re: [Merge tag 'pci-v4.12-changes' of git] 857f864014: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000000000a8 |
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On 12/06/17 10:35 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > Or better yet, just turn all char major allocations into dynamic, which > would be really good for test systems. I thought someone proposed > patches for that a long time ago, but I can't find them anymore. That > would be the simplest solution here.
Would people not complain about that? I would not be surprised if some crazy application is using hard coded major numbers in userspace. So such a change could potentially break userspace...
Logan
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