Re: 2.6.20.3: kernel BUG at mm/slab.c:597 try#2

Mike Christie
2007-03-19T18:28:29Z

Andreas Steinmetz wrote:
> As posted to lkml and linux-scsi on 2007-03-15 without reply, see
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=117395128412313&w=2 for original post:
>
> It is not so nice when one can write backup tapes but the tapes cannot
> be read. I don't know if memory management or the st driver is the
> culprit, but this is a not so nice situation.
>
> I can't even say if the tapes are written correctly as I can't read them
> (one does not reboot production machines back to 2.4.x just to try to
> read a backup tape - I don't have 2.6.x older than 2.6.20 on these
> machines).

Could you try this patch
http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=116464965414878&w=2
I thought st was modified to not send offsets in the last elements but
it looks like it wasn't.