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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: "Arve Hjønnevåg" <arve@android.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Ferenc Wagner <wferi@niif.hu>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.29-rc2 dies on startup
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:40:02 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090131034002.GD2947@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d6200be20901261629y2e3d8804h16055b9497125371@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 04:29:55PM -0800, Arve Hjønnevåg wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Andrew Morton
> <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > At a guess I'd say that drivers/staging/android/ram_console.c is calling
> > the reed-solomon code earlier than it's expecting.  But that might be
> > totally wrong.
> 
> Yes, but it also is trying to use a zero sized buffer at virtual
> address 0 so it will not work much better if you turn off ecc.
> 
> This patch (to the android kernel tree) add some validation:

<snip>

Care to redo this for the current tree so that I can apply it?

thanks,

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-01-31  3:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-19 12:53 2.6.29-rc2 dies on startup Ferenc Wagner
2009-01-26  6:46 ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-27  0:29   ` Arve Hjønnevåg
2009-01-27 17:13     ` Ferenc Wagner
2009-01-28 11:33     ` Ferenc Wagner
2009-01-31  3:40     ` Greg KH [this message]
2009-01-31  4:21       ` [PATCH] ram_console: Disable ECC when early init is enabled and validate buffer size Arve Hjønnevåg
2009-01-27 16:10   ` 2.6.29-rc2 dies on startup Ferenc Wagner
2009-01-27 16:53     ` Andrew Morton

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