Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 16:21:06 +0200
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Cc: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>,
        Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>, Linda Walsh <lkml@tlinx.org>,
        Linux-Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Doug Thompson <dougthompson@xmission.com>, linux-edac@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: BUG: key ffff880c1148c478 not in .data! (V3.10.0)
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On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 10:57:41AM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> This will be overriding the content of the static var mc_bus every for
> every new memory controller. Are you sure that bus.name is only used
> on register, or if its contents is stored somewhere?

bus_register does kobject_set_name which copies bus->name, for example,
but I didn't look exhaustively.

Just to be on the safe side, I should probably do a

static const char **bus_names = { "mc0", "mc1", ..., "mc7" };

and use it. Are 8 enough for your edac drivers too?

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    Boris.

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