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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Benjamin Gilbert <bgilbert@cs.cmu.edu>
Cc: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.36-rc1 oopses at boot time in kobject allocation
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:07:19 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100820190719.GA8804@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C6ED15E.3050506@cs.cmu.edu>

On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 03:02:54PM -0400, Benjamin Gilbert wrote:
> Ming Lei wrote:
> >2010/8/20 Benjamin Gilbert <bgilbert@cs.cmu.edu>:
> >>commit f8a4bd3456b988fc73b2c291b9e01b434c8fa940
> >>Author: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
> >>Date:   Fri Jun 4 00:54:43 2010 -0700
> >>
> >>   firmware loader: embed device into firmware_priv structure
> >
> >This commit does introduce one possible double free, maybe is related with
> >the issue, please try the attachment patch to see if the oops can be fixed.
> 
> The patch fixes it for me.  Thanks.

Great, it's in my queue to go to Linus in a day or so.

thanks for testing.

greg k-h

      reply	other threads:[~2010-08-20 19:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-19 20:22 2.6.36-rc1 oopses at boot time in kobject allocation Benjamin Gilbert
2010-08-19 20:34 ` Greg KH
2010-08-20 12:48   ` Benjamin Gilbert
2010-08-20 13:53     ` Ming Lei
2010-08-20 19:02       ` Benjamin Gilbert
2010-08-20 19:07         ` Greg KH [this message]

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