Re: 2.6.10-rc2-mm2 usb storage still oopses

James Bottomley
2004-11-30T03:22:37Z

On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 18:32, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 00:42:40 +0100, Fabio Coatti <cova@ferrara.linux.it> wrote:
> >
> > > Nov 18 20:33:05 kefk kernel: sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
> > > Nov 18 20:33:05 kefk kernel: sdb: sdb1
> > > Nov 18 20:33:05 kefk kernel: sdb: sdb1
> > > Nov 18 20:33:05 kefk kernel: kobject_register failed for sdb1 (-17)
> >
> > This looks as if SCSI falls victim of the general problem which ub addresses
> > with the following fragment:
>
> Guys, is this problem still present in Linus's tree? If so, is a fix for
> 2.6.10 looking feasible?

Al Viro has a tentative one at

http://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/people/viro/register_disk-hack

If someone could try it out and verify that it fixes the problem, we
could put it in.

James