Re: 2.6.11.7 kernel panic on boot on AMD64

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com> wrote:
>
> >                                                                                                            
> > I'm trying to install linux on an HP DL385 but directly on boot I got                                           
> > this kernel panic:
> > 
> >         http://www.puettmann.net/temp/panic.jpg
> 
> 
> This is bogus appending stuff to the saved_command_line and at the same
> time in Rubens case it touches the late_time_init() which breakes havoc.

-ETOOTERSE.  Do you meen that the user's command line was so long that this
strcat wandered off the end of the buffer and corrupted late_time_init?


> Signed-off-by: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com>
> 
> Index: linux-2.6/arch/x86_64/kernel/head64.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86_64/kernel/head64.c	2005-04-26 11:41:43.000000000 +0200
> +++ linux-2.6/arch/x86_64/kernel/head64.c	2005-04-29 11:57:46.000000000 +0200
> @@ -93,9 +93,6 @@
>  #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
>  	cpu_set(0, cpu_online_map);
>  #endif
> -	/* default console: */
> -	if (!strstr(saved_command_line, "console="))
> -		strcat(saved_command_line, " console=tty0"); 

Wasn't that code there for a reason?