From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Bottomley Subject: Re: 2.6.10-rc2-mm2 usb storage still oopses Date: 29 Nov 2004 21:22:03 -0600 Message-ID: <1101784930.2022.116.camel@mulgrave> References: <200411182203.02176.cova@ferrara.linux.it> <20041118133557.72f3b369.akpm@osdl.org> <20041118135809.3314ce41@lembas.zaitcev.lan> <200411190042.41199.cova@ferrara.linux.it> <20041118155542.324f56c7@lembas.zaitcev.lan> <20041129163231.33affbde.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from stat16.steeleye.com ([209.192.50.48]:30662 "EHLO hancock.sc.steeleye.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261943AbUK3DWc (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Nov 2004 22:22:32 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20041129163231.33affbde.akpm@osdl.org> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Andrew Morton Cc: Pete Zaitcev , cova@ferrara.linux.it, Linux Kernel , linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, SCSI Mailing List On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 18:32, Andrew Morton wrote: > Pete Zaitcev wrote: > > > > On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 00:42:40 +0100, Fabio Coatti wrote: > > > > > Nov 18 20:33:05 kefk kernel: sdb: assuming drive cache: write through > > > Nov 18 20:33:05 kefk kernel: sdb: sdb1 > > > Nov 18 20:33:05 kefk kernel: sdb: sdb1 > > > Nov 18 20:33:05 kefk kernel: kobject_register failed for sdb1 (-17) > > > > This looks as if SCSI falls victim of the general problem which ub addresses > > with the following fragment: > > Guys, is this problem still present in Linus's tree? If so, is a fix for > 2.6.10 looking feasible? Al Viro has a tentative one at http://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/people/viro/register_disk-hack If someone could try it out and verify that it fixes the problem, we could put it in. James