Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757621AbYHGAJA (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Aug 2008 20:09:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752248AbYHGAIb (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Aug 2008 20:08:31 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:56687 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751387AbYHGAIb (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Aug 2008 20:08:31 -0400 Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 16:52:37 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Alan Stern Cc: Dave Hansen , Kernel development list Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix verify_dynamic_kobject_allocation() Message-ID: <20080806235237.GA11964@kroah.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 715 Lines: 18 On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 04:00:18PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > The warn-when-statically-allocated-kobjects-are-used patch crashes my > machine during boot when it calls kzalloc(), presumably because the > call occurs too early. This patch (as1126) fixes it by using a static > string instead of a dynamically-allocated string. > > Signed-off-by: Alan Stern I just took andrew's version of this patch, sorry for the oops. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/