On Monday 28 July 2008, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 11:29 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > The current ide-pmac upstream is broken. It calls > > media_bay_set_ide_infos() with an uninitialized "hwif" argument. > > > > It's not a trivial mistake, there's a chicken-and-egg problem in the > > init code in there. > > > > I've locally fixed it with this patch that i'll merge via the powerpc > > tree unless you have an objection. Fine with me (you may add my ACK) and thanks for fixing it. > > However, the machine crashes when removing the media-bay CD-ROM drive. > > > > Crash appears to be a NULL deref, possibly in elv_may_queue() though > > I don't have a clean backtrace yet, working on it... I wonder whether conversion from on-stack struct requests to allocated ones may have something to do with it (or not?)... > Here's a backtrace: > > Vector: 300 (Data Access) at [c58b7b80] > pc: c014f264: elv_may_queue+0x10/0x44 > lr: c0152750: get_request+0x2c/0x2c0 > sp: c58b7c30 > msr: 1032 > dar: c > dsisr: 40000000 > current = 0xc58aaae0 > pid = 854, comm = media-bay > enter ? for help > mon> t > [c58b7c40] c0152750 get_request+0x2c/0x2c0 > [c58b7c70] c0152a08 get_request_wait+0x24/0xec > [c58b7cc0] c0225674 ide_cd_queue_pc+0x58/0x1a0 > [c58b7d40] c022672c ide_cdrom_packet+0x9c/0xdc > [c58b7d70] c0261810 cdrom_get_disc_info+0x60/0xd0 > [c58b7dc0] c026208c cdrom_mrw_exit+0x1c/0x11c > [c58b7e30] c0260f7c unregister_cdrom+0x84/0xe8 > [c58b7e50] c022395c ide_cd_release+0x80/0x84 > [c58b7e70] c0163650 kref_put+0x54/0x6c > [c58b7e80] c0223884 ide_cd_put+0x40/0x5c > [c58b7ea0] c0211100 generic_ide_remove+0x28/0x3c > [c58b7eb0] c01e9d34 __device_release_driver+0x78/0xb4 > [c58b7ec0] c01e9e44 device_release_driver+0x28/0x44 > [c58b7ee0] c01e8f7c bus_remove_device+0xac/0xd8 > [c58b7f00] c01e7424 device_del+0x104/0x198 > [c58b7f20] c01e74d0 device_unregister+0x18/0x30 > [c58b7f40] c02121c4 __ide_port_unregister_devices+0x6c/0x88 > [c58b7f60] c0212398 ide_port_unregister_devices+0x38/0x80 > [c58b7f80] c0208ca4 media_bay_step+0x1cc/0x5c0 > [c58b7fb0] c0209124 media_bay_task+0x8c/0xcc > [c58b7fd0] c00485c0 kthread+0x48/0x84 > [c58b7ff0] c0011b20 kernel_thread+0x44/0x60 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
