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Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2002 16:55:23 +0100
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
From: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
Subject: Re: [BUG-2.5.24-BK] DriverFS panics on boot!
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At 16:41 04/07/02, James Bottomley wrote:
>Er, oops, I think this one's my fault.
>
>The recent driverfs additions for SCSI also added partition handling in
>driverfs.  The code is slightly more invasive than it should be so the IDE
>driver needs to know how to use it (which it doesn't yet).  In theory there's
>a NULL pointer check in driverfs_create_partitions for precisely this case,
>but it looks like the IDE code is forgetting to zero out a kmalloc of a 
>struct
>gendisk somewhere (hence the 5a5a... contents).  At a cursory glance, this
>seems to be in ide/probe.c, so does the attached patch fix it?
>
>I'll try to reproduce, but I'm all SCSI here except for my laptop.

Your patch fixed it. Please submit to Linus!

Best regards,

         Anton


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