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SubjectRe: Some errors with 2.6.0-test4-mm2
Okrain Genady <mafteah@mafteah.co.il> wrote:
>
> This error started with -mm2:
>
> # lilo
> <1>Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address
> 00000000
> printing eip:
> c029f9b2
> *pde = 00000000
> Oops: 0000 [#4]
> PREEMPT
> CPU: 0
> EIP: 0060:[<c029f9b2>] Tainted: PF VLI
> EFLAGS: 00010246
> EIP is at generic_ide_ioctl+0x352/0x8b0
> eax: 00000000 ebx: bfffec70 ecx: 0000e7a2 edx: 00000000
> esi: bfffec68 edi: c87ca000 ebp: c87cbf68 esp: c87cbf2c
> ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068
> Process lilo (pid: 5503, threadinfo=c87ca000 task=c8eac080)
> Stack: c03c76db 0000064e c7853200 fffffff2 00000000 00000000 e7a20003 c04ccb8c
> cfa7e000 c87cbf9c c0153b66 cf5ae6c0 cfd33e40 c02a3a60 cf619680 c87cbf90
> c0268235 cfd33e40 00000301 bfffec68 bfffec68 00000001 00000301 c7853200
> Call Trace:
> [<c0153b66>] filp_open+0x66/0x70
> [<c02a3a60>] idedisk_ioctl+0x0/0x30

Al has sent through a fix for this.


diff -puN include/linux/genhd.h~large-dev_t-12-fix include/linux/genhd.h
--- 25/include/linux/genhd.h~large-dev_t-12-fix 2003-08-27 10:36:32.000000000 -0700
+++ 25-akpm/include/linux/genhd.h 2003-08-27 10:36:32.000000000 -0700
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ extern void rand_initialize_disk(struct

static inline sector_t get_start_sect(struct block_device *bdev)
{
- return bdev->bd_part->start_sect;
+ return bdev->bd_contains == bdev ? 0 : bdev->bd_part->start_sect;
}
static inline sector_t get_capacity(struct gendisk *disk)
{
_

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