Re: 2.4.19: oops in ide-scsi

James Stevenson
2002-09-25T18:16:43Z

Hi

then i belive there are other possible problems which may by
just as bad

On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 17:46, Philippe Troin wrote:
> James Stevenson <james@stev.org> writes:
>
> > On Tue, 2002-09-24 at 22:00, Philippe Troin wrote:
> > > James Stevenson <james@stev.org> writes:
> > >
> > > > Hi
> > > >
> > > > i am glad somebody else sees the same crash as me the
> > > > request Q gets set to NULL for some reson then tries to
> > > > increment a stats counter in the null pointer.
> > > > i know what the bug is i just dont know how to fix it :>
> > >
> > > I'm not sure which Q you're talking about.
> > > Is that rq (in idescsi_pc_intr())?
> >
> > the crash happens on
> >
> > if (status & ERR_STAT)
> > rq->errors++;
> >
> > because
> > struct request *rq = pc->rq;
> > is NULL
>
> Have you tried changing it to:
>
> if (status & ERR_STAT && rq)
> rq->errors++;
>
> The code is going to return anyways, and rq is only used here on this
> path.
>
> BTW, can you reproduce the oops at will? I can't :-(
>
> Phil.