From: Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@pp.inet.fi>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: rusty@rustcorp.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Can't allocate memory when loading a module 2.5.48-bk
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 11:15:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DDB52AE.AC88EB09@pp.inet.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20021120084303.GB22936@kroah.com
Greg KH wrote:
> With Linus's latest bk tree (plus some USB patches) I get the following
> error when trying to load the parport.o module:
>
> # modprobe parport
> FATAL: Error inserting /lib/modules/2.5.48/kernel/parport.o: Cannot allocate memory
>
> Any ideas?
Tag some init code with __init
At least stock 2.5.48 tries to happily allocate zero bytes for init section,
and gets a null pointer. That 'error' is then propagated to user space.
Regards,
Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@pp.inet.fi>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-20 9:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-20 8:43 Can't allocate memory when loading a module 2.5.48-bk Greg KH
2002-11-20 9:15 ` Jari Ruusu [this message]
2002-11-20 12:52 ` Juan M. de la Torre
2002-11-24 23:34 ` Rusty Russell
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=3DDB52AE.AC88EB09@pp.inet.fi \
--to=jari.ruusu@pp.inet.fi \
--cc=greg@kroah.com \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=rusty@rustcorp.com.au \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox