From: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
To: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 13:48:51 +1100
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Subject: Re: Regression - 2.6.24-rc3 - umem nvram card driver oops
In-Reply-To: message from David Chinner on Tuesday December 4
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On Tuesday December 4, dgc@sgi.com wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 11:14:12AM +1100, Neil Brown wrote:
> > On Tuesday December 4, dgc@sgi.com wrote:
> > > Neil,
> > > 
> > > I just upgraded an ia64 (Altix, 16k page size) test box to 2.6.24-rc3
> > > from 2.6.23 and I get it panicing on boot in the umem driver.
> > 
> > Cool - someone is using umem!  And even testing it.  Thanks!
> > 
> > A quick look shows a probable NULL deref.  Let me know if this fixes
> > it.  I'll read through the offending patch more carefully and make
> > sure there is nothing else wrong.
> 
> Yeah, that appears to fix the problem.
> 
> Tested-by: Dave Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>

Thanks. 
I couldn't find any other issues in the code.

NeilBrown
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