Re: [PATCH] Fix crash on boot in kmalloc_node IDE changes

[Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>]

On Wed, 6 Jul 2005 16:35:11 +0200
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 7/6/05, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:
> > > drive->hwif check is redundant, please remove it
> > 
> > It's not. My first version didn't have it but it still crashed.
> > It's what actually prevents the crash.
> > I also don't know why, but it's true.
> 
> very weird as HWIF(drive) == drive->hwif:
> 
> 	ide_hwif_t *hwif = HWIF(drive);
> 
> ...
> 
> 	q = blk_init_queue_node(do_ide_request, &ide_lock,
> 				pcibus_to_node(drive->hwif->pci_dev->bus));
                                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I oops on that one. Maybe it takes the early return. 

> 	if (!q)
> 		return 1;
> 
> ...
> 
> 	if (!hwif->rqsize) {
> 
> you should OOPS here


I would appreciate if some form of this patch is merged asap because it breaks
booting on my test machines.

-Andi