From: Mike Qiu <qiudayu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, brking@us.ibm.com,
"James E.J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@parallels.com>,
Wen Xiong <wenxiong@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi/ipr: Bugfix: add null pointer check for ioa_cfg
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 01:24:56 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5294D968.8030407@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5294D876.8040105@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
On 11/27/2013 01:20 AM, Brian King wrote:
> On 11/12/2013 09:02 PM, Mike Qiu wrote:
>> When we detects EEH errors during driver probe time, the error
>> handlers of the driver are invoked by EEH core. Unfortunately,
>> we haven't built some data structs that the error handlers
>> refers to. That leads to kernel crash eventually.
> This will only fix the kernel crash and not allow for recovery.
> Wendy is working on a patch to support recovering from these
> early EEH errors, so I'd prefer to wait and just push the one
> patch, rather than have to revert this one once Wendy's
> patch is ready.
OK, this is just a workaround, as Wendy will solve this issue, better to
wait her solution.
Thanks
Mike
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brian
>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-26 17:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-13 3:02 [PATCH] scsi/ipr: Bugfix: add null pointer check for ioa_cfg Mike Qiu
2013-11-26 17:20 ` Brian King
2013-11-26 17:24 ` Mike Qiu [this message]
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