From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: William Heimbigner <icxcnika@mar.tar.cc>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>,
Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: BUG: Null pointer dereference in fs/open.c
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 22:17:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070423221726.ccfa982c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704240507110.25153@server.thyself>
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 05:10:04 +0000 (GMT) William Heimbigner <icxcnika@mar.tar.cc> wrote:
> > --- a/drivers/block/pktcdvd.c~packet-fix-error-handling
> > +++ a/drivers/block/pktcdvd.c
> > @@ -777,7 +777,8 @@ static int pkt_generic_packet(struct pkt
> > rq->cmd_flags |= REQ_QUIET;
> >
> > blk_execute_rq(rq->q, pd->bdev->bd_disk, rq, 0);
> > - ret = rq->errors;
> > + if (rq->errors)
> > + ret = -EIO;
> > out:
> > blk_put_request(rq);
> > return ret;
> > _
>
> This patch fixes (or conceals?) the oops.
>
Fixes. But does the packet driver actually work OK for you? Writes
files and stuff like that?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-24 5:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-22 23:13 BUG: Null pointer dereference (2.6.21-rc7) William Heimbigner
2007-04-23 8:00 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-23 13:58 ` William Heimbigner
2007-04-23 16:39 ` William Heimbigner
2007-04-24 4:09 ` BUG: Null pointer dereference in fs/open.c William Heimbigner
[not found] ` <20070423215810.5a24ed9a.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2007-04-24 5:10 ` William Heimbigner
2007-04-24 5:17 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-04-24 5:44 ` William Heimbigner
2007-04-24 5:56 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-25 7:48 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-25 22:53 ` William Heimbigner
2007-04-25 23:05 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-26 0:48 ` William Heimbigner
2007-04-26 6:39 ` Jens Axboe
2007-04-26 6:33 ` Jens Axboe
2007-04-24 20:46 ` Peter Osterlund
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