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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: Justin A <ja6447@albany.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: pnpbios oops on boot w/ 2.5.47
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 14:08:28 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DD6C1DC.44966373@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200211161700.29653.ja6447@albany.edu

Justin A wrote:
> 
> Hi :)
> 
> I tried to "port" kmsgdump to 2.5.47 and for some reason, it worked.
> 
> Attached is the full dmesg
> 
> Alan: I ran dmidecode under 2.4.19 which said simply "PNP BIOS present"
> 
> This is a thinkpad 760e, really old..I don't even think I need pnpbios support
> for anything.  2.5.47/2.5.47-ac5 boot with pnpbios turned off, so I think you
> just need to add this to your blacklist?
> 

The BUG in slab indicates that something overran the end of a kmalloced
buffer.  That'll be either pnp_bios_get_dev_node() or node_set_resources()
ran off the end of `node'.

  reply	other threads:[~2002-11-16 22:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-16 22:00 pnpbios oops on boot w/ 2.5.47 Justin A
2002-11-16 22:08 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-11-17  1:52   ` Andrew Morton
2002-11-16 23:25     ` Adam Belay
2002-11-17  4:35       ` Andrew Morton
2002-11-17 17:34         ` Adam Belay
2002-11-18 17:35           ` Alan Cox
2002-11-17  6:00       ` Justin A
2002-11-17 18:05         ` Adam Belay
2002-11-17 23:41           ` Justin A

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