Re: 2.6.7 oops in psmouse/serio while booting

[Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>]

On Tuesday 29 June 2004 11:22 pm, twl@mail.com wrote:
> The panic happens in psmouse_interrupt.  It doesn't happen every time I boot, 
> but it happens about half of the time.  It doesn't happen with 2.6.6. 
>  
> I have a USB mouse, but the input driver initially seems to think it has found 
> a serial PS/2 mouse. 
>  
> When it boots ok, I see this: 
>  
> mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice 
> serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 
> input: PS/2 Generic Mouse on isa0060/serio1 
> <snip> 
> input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech Optical USB Mouse] on usb-0000:00:1d.0-1 
>  
> When it panics, I see this: 
>  
> mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice 
> serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 
> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000 
>  printing eip:

Hi,

Could you please try the patch below? 

-- 
Dmitry

===== drivers/input/mouse/psmouse-base.c 1.65 vs edited =====
--- 1.65/drivers/input/mouse/psmouse-base.c	2004-06-28 23:00:50 -05:00
+++ edited/drivers/input/mouse/psmouse-base.c	2004-06-30 00:13:58 -05:00
@@ -717,13 +717,14 @@
 		goto out;
 	}
 
+	/* Install default protocol handler (may be overriden later) */
+	psmouse->protocol_handler = psmouse_process_byte;
+
 	psmouse->type = psmouse_extensions(psmouse, psmouse_max_proto, 1);
 	if (!psmouse->vendor)
 		psmouse->vendor = "Generic";
 	if (!psmouse->name)
 		psmouse->name = "Mouse";
-	if (!psmouse->protocol_handler)
-		psmouse->protocol_handler = psmouse_process_byte;
 
 	sprintf(psmouse->devname, "%s %s %s",
 		psmouse_protocols[psmouse->type], psmouse->vendor, psmouse->name);