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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
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Subject: Re: 2.6.29-rc2 dies on startup
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On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 04:29:55PM -0800, Arve Hj?nnev?g wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Andrew Morton
> <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > At a guess I'd say that drivers/staging/android/ram_console.c is calling
> > the reed-solomon code earlier than it's expecting.  But that might be
> > totally wrong.
> 
> Yes, but it also is trying to use a zero sized buffer at virtual
> address 0 so it will not work much better if you turn off ecc.
> 
> This patch (to the android kernel tree) add some validation:

<snip>

Care to redo this for the current tree so that I can apply it?

thanks,

greg k-h
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