Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 4 Oct 1998 22:22:11 +1000 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: devfs oops |
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slava@galaxycorp.com writes: > Another oops to keep you guys busy :) > > Kernel 2.1.123+devfs v62. Any attempt to access /proc/partitions gives > me: > > Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 74316230 [...] > Maybe array_read uses a structure member as a function, and that > member happened to be corrupt? BTW, this doesn't occur without > devfs. Devfs has rather long device names - maybe an overflow?
Yep, good guess. I've tracked this down to <get_partition_list> in drivers/block/genhd.c I've just released devfs-patch-v64 which fixes this.
Regards,
Richard....
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