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SubjectRe: 2.6.0: blkdev_get() oopses on floppy
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 11:50:32PM +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I writing a piece of code which piggybacks on a block_device (a bit like
> dm/md). This particular piece of test code:
> err = blkdev_get(bdev, FMODE_READ, 0, BDEV_RAW);
> if(err)
> {
> printk(KERN_ERR "blkdev_get: error %d\n", -err);
> goto no_get;
> }
> printk(KERN_INFO "using device %s\n", dev->bd_disk->disk_name);
> blkdev_put(bdev, BDEV_RAW);
> no_get:
> bdput(bdev);

That's wrong - faling blkdev_get() will do bdput() itself.

*NOTE*: unless you are really forced to, don't use that "open by device
number" crap at all - normal filp_open() will do nicely if you have the
pathname of device in question and it's _much_ better interface.

> raw /dev/raw/raw1 /dev/fd0
> cat /dev/raw/raw1 >/dev/null
>
> and got this oops:
>
> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000040
> printing eip:
> d08a285a
> *pde = 00000000
> Oops: 0000 [#4]
> CPU: 0
> EIP: 0060:[<d08a285a>] Not tainted
> EFLAGS: 00000296
> EIP is at floppy_open+0x1a/0x410 [floppy]
> eax: 00000000 ebx: d08a2840 ecx: d08a9044 edx: d08a9584
> esi: cfc9aac0 edi: cba1be6c ebp: cfff108c esp: cba1bd5c
> ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068
> Process cat (pid: 16749, threadinfo=cba1a000 task=cc29f3a0)
> Stack: c01fb800 00000000 cba1a000 00000001 cfff1040 cc2d9540 d08a2840 cfc9aac0
> cfff1040 d08a99c0 c015e964 cfff108c cba1be6c cffff8c8 c11d9b60 cba1a000
> 00000246 cfff104c c0395420 00000000 cfff1040 00000001 cba1be6c cc2d9540
> Call Trace:
> [<c01fb800>] exact_match+0x0/0x10
> [<d08a2840>] floppy_open+0x0/0x410 [floppy]
> [<c015e964>] do_open+0x134/0x410
> [<c015ecbe>] blkdev_get+0x7e/0xa0
> [<d08c9087>] raw_open+0x87/0x150 [raw]
> [<c015f932>] chrdev_open+0xf2/0x220
> [<c0165516>] open_namei+0xa6/0x400
> [<c0155630>] dentry_open+0x150/0x210
> [<c01554d8>] filp_open+0x68/0x70
> [<c015597b>] sys_open+0x5b/0x90
> [<c010b3d9>] sysenter_past_esp+0x52/0x71
>
> Code: 8b 40 40 8b 70 28 b8 f0 ff ff ff 89 44 24 10 c7 47 74 00 00

Lovely... Which kernel is that?
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