Re: [2.6.19-rc3-mm1] BUG at arch/i386/mm/pageattr.c:165

Andrew James Wade
2006-11-01T16:26:18Z

On Tuesday 31 October 2006 00:09, Andrew James Wade wrote:
> On Monday 30 October 2006 23:20, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 08:11:23PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 22:58:11 -0500
> > > Andrew James Wade <andrew.j.wade@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > I've just found out that unsetting CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED makes the
> > > > crash go away.
> > >
> > > How bizarre. sysfs changes cause unexpected pte protection values?
>
> Perhaps one of the drivers is responding badly to device_create
> failing? (-EEXIST, if I'm not mistaken).
>
> >
> > That's just wrong. Something odd is happening here. Can you try to
> > bisect things to determine the patch that is causing the problem?
>
> Sure.

driver-core-fixes-sysfs_create_link-retval-checks-in.patch is where
this particular crash starts.

Andrew Wade