Re: kernel BUG at drivers/block/ub.c:820!

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:36:38 +0300 Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 03 2008 at 19:30 +0300, Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:18:31 +0200, Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> wrote:
> >> On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 11:08 -0500, Kiyoshi Ueda wrote:
> > 
> >>> I believe the patch from Pete fixes this BUG():
> >>>     http://marc.info/?l=linux-usb&m=120613888005382&w=2
> >>>
> >>> Could you try that?
> >> Just tested the patch and it indeed fixes the bug.
> > 
> > I'm glad.
> > 
> >> Could we push this upstream for 2.6.25? It is a regression, I would
> >> prefer to have a 2.6.25 that doesn't panic my machine when I attach a
> >> USB stick..
> > 
> > I was going to work through Greg as usual and then push it to
> > the stable tree. I'm not Linus' "leutenant", so I cannot just send
> > him random patches.
> > 
> > -- Pete
> 
> This is a block device siting in block/ folder. It is certainly Jens's
> linux-block territory. Best put it through the tree that introduced the
> bug, no?
> 
> Best would be to resend to Jens ASAP, it is a 2.6.25 regression.

I stole it out of Greg's tree - I'll merge it Saturdayish unless someone
stops me.