Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 22:44:07 -0800
From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kay.sievers@vrfy.org
Subject: Re: partition sysfs OOPS in current GIT
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On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 10:05:44PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
> Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 21:47:38 -0800
> 
> > On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 08:06:18PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> > > I redid the bisect to make sure it absolutely was that specific
> > > changeset, and it is.
> > 
> > Thanks for doing that, I'll let you know when I have a patch to test.
> 
> I found the problem, it's the "whole_disk" partition attribute.
> 
> Look in fs/partitions/check.c:add_partition() where it tests the
> ADDPART_FLAG_WHOLEDISK flag.

So, if you just comment out that whole "if (flags &
ADDPART_FLAG_WHOLEDISK)" chunk, does the oops go away?  I think that is
the real solution here as I don't see what this attribute is supposed to
be showing.

thanks,

greg k-h
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