Re: 2.4.0-test11 (pre1, final) OOPS during boot/modprobe

From: Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)
Date: Sat Nov 25 2000 - 07:27:24 EST


Keith Owens writes:
> On Sat, 25 Nov 2000 06:10:54 -0500 (EST),
> ssd@nevets.oau.org (Steven S. Dick) wrote:
> >2.4.0-test11-pre1 seems to have broken something.
> >I have no problems with test10, but test11-pre1 gives three oops
> >messages during boot. test11-final gives the exact same OOPS messages...
>
> Which modutils? And if it is not 2.3.21, upgrade.

Steven probably wants to apply this patch to test11:

--- orig/kernel/module.c Wed Nov 22 14:08:23 2000
+++ linux/kernel/module.c Sat Nov 25 10:40:26 2000
@@ -480,7 +480,9 @@
 
         /* Ok, that's about all the sanity we can stomach; copy the rest. */
 
- if (copy_from_user(mod+1, mod_user+1, mod->size-sizeof(*mod))) {
+ if (copy_from_user((char *)mod+mod_user_size,
+ (char *)mod_user+mod_user_size,
+ mod->size-mod_user_size)) {
                 error = -EFAULT;
                 goto err3;
         }

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