Thanks.
>
>
> Oops, there's a silly bug in __request_region() that bites you if you have
> resource clashes. We don't correctly clean up, so we return a half-assed
> "successful" allocation for some cases we definitely should not..
>
> It then crashes in __release_region() because the bad success we returned
> had not actually been initialized as a successful resource.
>
> Does this simple patch fix it for you?
>
> Linus
>
> ----
> --- linux-pre8/kernel/resource.c Thu Aug 5 18:24:21 1999
> +++ linux/kernel/resource.c Sat Aug 7 11:08:54 1999
> @@ -145,7 +145,7 @@
>
> write_lock(&resource_lock);
>
> - while (!(parent->flags & IORESOURCE_BUSY)) {
> + for (;;) {
> struct resource *conflict;
>
> conflict = __request_resource(parent, res);
> @@ -153,7 +153,8 @@
> break;
> if (conflict != parent) {
> parent = conflict;
> - continue;
> + if (!(conflict->flags & IORESOURCE_BUSY))
> + continue;
> }
>
> /* Uhhuh, that didn't work out.. */
>
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