Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752530Ab0HTNxf (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:53:35 -0400 Received: from mail-ew0-f46.google.com ([209.85.215.46]:48346 "EHLO mail-ew0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751562Ab0HTNxd (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:53:33 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=kPOJqalFhQbjk1zXJ0GVd4e8G/X3QU9xqZe8qqlc2ZahGi1BTqIYonjlNL23tIn1cY IIt4qSxZL3bguTJC0u+h4w9lNjEckNCTJJLwSbEQvb1D5xRWjUx7omhp+LtHQSYSyFVd cQ0uL76ukBXN8LkmHTHn/WU+Nhfg6tj1yuDMY= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4C6E799A.7060902@cs.cmu.edu> References: <4C6D9289.4000702@cs.cmu.edu> <20100819203435.GA28508@suse.de> <4C6E799A.7060902@cs.cmu.edu> Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:53:31 +0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: 2.6.36-rc1 oopses at boot time in kobject allocation From: Ming Lei To: Benjamin Gilbert Cc: Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=0016363ba1f8cb84cb048e419f25 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1838 Lines: 44 --0016363ba1f8cb84cb048e419f25 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 2010/8/20 Benjamin Gilbert : > On 08/19/2010 04:34 PM, Greg KH wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 04:22:33PM -0400, Benjamin Gilbert wrote: >>> 2.6.36-rc1 and 2.6.36-rc1-127-g763008c fail to boot for me: >> >> Can you run 'git bisect' to try to track this down? > > commit f8a4bd3456b988fc73b2c291b9e01b434c8fa940 > Author: Dmitry Torokhov > Date: =A0 Fri Jun 4 00:54:43 2010 -0700 > > =A0 =A0firmware loader: embed device into firmware_priv structure This commit does introduce one possible double free, maybe is related with the issue, please try the attachment patch to see if the oops can be fixed. --=20 Lei Ming --0016363ba1f8cb84cb048e419f25 Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="fix_possible_double_free.patch" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="fix_possible_double_free.patch" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 X-Attachment-Id: f_gd33m9g30 ZGlmZiAtLWdpdCBhL2RyaXZlcnMvYmFzZS9maXJtd2FyZV9jbGFzcy5jIGIvZHJpdmVycy9iYXNl L2Zpcm13YXJlX2NsYXNzLmMKaW5kZXggYzhhNDRmNS4uNDBhZjQzZSAxMDA2NDQKLS0tIGEvZHJp dmVycy9iYXNlL2Zpcm13YXJlX2NsYXNzLmMKKysrIGIvZHJpdmVycy9iYXNlL2Zpcm13YXJlX2Ns YXNzLmMKQEAgLTU2OCw3ICs1NjgsNyBAQCBzdGF0aWMgaW50IF9yZXF1ZXN0X2Zpcm13YXJlKGNv bnN0IHN0cnVjdCBmaXJtd2FyZSAqKmZpcm13YXJlX3AsCiBvdXQ6CiAJaWYgKHJldHZhbCkgewog CQlyZWxlYXNlX2Zpcm13YXJlKGZpcm13YXJlKTsKLQkJZmlybXdhcmVfcCA9IE5VTEw7CisJCSpm aXJtd2FyZV9wID0gTlVMTDsKIAl9CiAKIAlyZXR1cm4gcmV0dmFsOwo= --0016363ba1f8cb84cb048e419f25-- -- 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/