From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
To: Andrew Burgess <aab@cichlid.com>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Oops in scsi_send_eh_cmnd 2.6.21-rc5-git6,7,10,13
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 08:44:54 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1175867094.3677.5.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200704060221.l362LD4s025776@cichlid.com>
On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 19:21 -0700, Andrew Burgess wrote:
> 2.6.20.4 with your patch dies in the memcpy (as does 21-gitN)
>
> 2.6.20.4 without your patch dies in the subsequent __free_page
> with a null pointer ref at 000...008
>
> James should I try your posted patch? On which kernel?
Well, mine will work, but will also cover up the problem. It looks like
the scatterlist is getting corrupted by the HBA driver somehow ... we
really need to root cause this, otherwise other things will go wrong in
strange ways.
Just to confirm, the HBA with the problem is 3w-xxxx?
James
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-06 13:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-06 2:21 Oops in scsi_send_eh_cmnd 2.6.21-rc5-git6,7,10,13 Andrew Burgess
2007-04-06 13:44 ` James Bottomley [this message]
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2007-04-06 18:18 Andrew Burgess
2007-04-06 15:51 Andrew Burgess
2007-04-06 16:14 ` James Bottomley
2007-04-06 16:32 ` Douglas Gilbert
2007-04-06 16:47 ` James Bottomley
2007-04-06 15:12 Andrew Burgess
2007-04-06 15:27 ` James Bottomley
2007-04-06 18:32 ` David Miller
2007-04-06 21:35 ` James Bottomley
2007-04-05 22:13 Andrew Burgess
2007-04-05 22:36 ` David Miller
2007-04-06 0:02 ` James Bottomley
2007-04-06 0:15 ` David Miller
2007-04-06 0:51 ` James Bottomley
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