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From: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>
To: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.0: blkdev_get() oopses on floppy
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 08:55:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1073894153.950.19.camel@nomade> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040112015238.GH30321@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>

Le lun 12/01/2004 à 02:52, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk a
écrit :

> That's wrong - faling blkdev_get() will do bdput() itself.

Ok, thanks (strange). But note that my problem is at blkdev_get() time.

> *NOTE*:  unless you are really forced to, don't use that "open by device
> number" crap at all - normal filp_open() will do nicely if you have the
> pathname of device in question and it's _much_ better interface.

But that's exactely what raw.c does (although the userspace knows the
dev pathname).

> > raw /dev/raw/raw1 /dev/fd0
> > cat /dev/raw/raw1 >/dev/null
> > 
> > and got this oops:
> > 
> > Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000040
[...]
> Lovely...  Which kernel is that?

Plain 2.6.0, I'll try 2.6.1 when I can.

Thanks Al,

	Xav


  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-12  7:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-11 22:50 2.6.0: blkdev_get() oopses on floppy Xavier Bestel
2004-01-12  1:52 ` viro
2004-01-12  7:55   ` Xavier Bestel [this message]
2004-01-12  8:16     ` Xavier Bestel

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