From: Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@xxxxxxxxxxx> With 2.6.30, the error handling code in cdrom_newpc_intr was changed to deal with partial request failures by normally completing the 'good' parts of a request and only 'error' the last (and presumably, incompletely transferred) bio associated with a particular request. In order to do this, ide_complete_rq is called over ide_cd_error_cmd() to partially complete the rq. The block layer does partial completion only for requests with bio's and if the rq doesn't have one (eg 'GPCMD_READ_DISC_INFO') the request is completed as a whole and the drive->hwif->rq pointer set to NULL afterwards. When calling ide_complete_rq again to report the error, this null pointer is derefenced, resulting in a kernel crash. Signed-Off-By: Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- --- drivers/ide/ide-cd.c.orig 2009-06-18 15:10:24.000000000 +0200 +++ drivers/ide/ide-cd.c 2009-06-18 14:10:16.000000000 +0200 @@ -758,7 +758,7 @@ out_end: rq->errors = -EIO; } - if (uptodate == 0) + if (uptodate == 0 && rq->bio) ide_cd_error_cmd(drive, cmd); /* make sure it's fully ended */ -- 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
