Re: Next May 13:[drivers/base/firmware*] Bug while booting on x86

From: David Woodhouse
Date: Thu May 14 2009 - 11:54:45 EST


On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 18:36 +0530, Sachin Sant wrote:
> BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000050c
> IP: [<c0119c5d>] kunmap+0x33/0x59

Oops. Does this fix it?

--- a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
+++ b/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
@@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ firmware_data_write(struct kobject *kobj, struct
bin_attribute *bin_attr,

memcpy(page_data + page_ofs, buffer, page_cnt);

- kunmap(page_data);
+ kunmap(fw_priv->pages[page_nr]);
buffer += page_cnt;
offset += page_cnt;
count -= page_cnt;

--
David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@xxxxxxxxx Intel Corporation

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