Re: devfs oops
Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
Sun, 4 Oct 1998 22:22:11 +1000
slava@galaxycorp.com writes:
> Another oops to keep you guys busy :)
>
> Kernel 2.1.123+devfs v62. Any attempt to access /proc/partitions gives
> me:
>
> Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 74316230
[...]
> Maybe array_read uses a structure member as a function, and that
> member happened to be corrupt? BTW, this doesn't occur without
> devfs. Devfs has rather long device names - maybe an overflow?
Yep, good guess. I've tracked this down to <get_partition_list> in
drivers/block/genhd.c
I've just released devfs-patch-v64 which fixes this.
Regards,
Richard....
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