Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Jul 1999 18:09:34 +0200 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: Oops in ppa.o |
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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.
-- * Jens Axboe <axboe@image.dk> * Linux CD-ROM Maintainer
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