Re: [Merge tag 'pci-v4.12-changes' of git] 857f864014: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000000000a8

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-06-13T04:34:29Z

On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 10:29:20PM -0600, Logan Gunthorpe wrote:
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> On 12/06/17 10:18 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > What test causes so many major numbers to be allocated? Is this
> > in-kernel test code? Do you really have a system that requires so many
> > different drivers that all want a dynamic char major?
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> This is a 0day kernel robot test. I'm not sure the motivations of its
> design but it seems to be similar to an allyesconfig. So all/most
> modules are compiled in and allocating their char device regions on boot
> of a qemu instance.

Ah, that makes sense. Well, someone can always work on expanding the
range of dynamic char major numbers if they are running out of them on a
real system, I'll gladly take patches for that :)

thanks,

greg k-h