From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751303Ab2ACBNd (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jan 2012 20:13:33 -0500 Received: from out5.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.29]:49722 "EHLO out5.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750990Ab2ACBNb (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jan 2012 20:13:31 -0500 X-Sasl-enc: LF846h9RPBir3rfBFYnDsrunPFm4elzsptWVSVLgiRTL 1325553210 Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2012 17:12:13 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Neil Horman Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware: Fix an oops on reading fw_priv->fw in sysfs loading file Message-ID: <20120103011213.GA21956@kroah.com> References: <1325536283-21159-1-git-send-email-nhorman@tuxdriver.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1325536283-21159-1-git-send-email-nhorman@tuxdriver.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 03:31:23PM -0500, Neil Horman wrote: > This oops was reported recently: > firmware_loading_store+0xf9/0x17b > dev_attr_store+0x20/0x22 > sysfs_write_file+0x101/0x134 > vfs_write+0xac/0xf3 > sys_write+0x4a/0x6e > system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b > > The complete backtrace was unfortunately not captured, but details can be found > here: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=769920 > > The cause is fairly clear. Thanks, this patch should also fix the same problem that the Motorola developers were seeing, yet failed to create a useful patch for :) greg k-h