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SubjectRe: Oops in ppa.o
On Tue, Jul 20 1999, Will Weisser wrote:
> OK, here goes:
>
> The kernel is 2.2.10, and the command line is `insmod ppa.`
>
> This happens very rarely, but when it does, the ppa module is marked
> "unintialized" and I must reboot to get my zip drive to work. Here's a
> dump of the oops:
[snip]
> ksymoops tells me:
>
> >>EIP: c802a594 <scan_scsis+54/3f0>
> Trace: c803b0ec <do_sd+3418/5378>

This is a known bug. It tries to allocate memory below the 16MB
boundary and doesn't check whether it succeeds. AFAIR, Alan
has a fix included in the proposed-2.2.11 patch.

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* Jens Axboe <axboe@image.dk>
* Linux CD-ROM Maintainer

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