Re: [PATCH] ide-cd: fix kernel crash on hppa regression

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Hi,

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 12:45:31AM +0200, Helge Deller wrote:
> With 2.6.30-rc2 I face a kernel crash on the 32bit hppa architecture 
> due to ide-cd when udev creates the device nodes at startup:
> 
> Kernel Fault: Code=26 regs=8ed34c40 (Addr=00000024)
> IASQ: 00000000 00000000 IAOQ: 1034b5ac 1034b5b0
>  IIR: 4ab30048    ISR: 00000000  IOR: 00000024
>  CPU:        0   CR30: 8ed34000 CR31: ffff55ff
>  ORIG_R28: 00000000
>  IAOQ[0]: ide_complete_rq+0x2c/0x70
>  IAOQ[1]: ide_complete_rq+0x30/0x70
>  RP(r2): cdrom_newpc_intr+0x178/0x46c
> Backtrace:
>  [<1035c608>] cdrom_newpc_intr+0x178/0x46c
>  [<1034c494>] ide_intr+0x1b0/0x214
>  [<1016d284>] handle_IRQ_event+0x70/0x150
>  [<1016d4b0>] __do_IRQ+0x14c/0x1cc
>  [<102f7864>] superio_interrupt+0x88/0xbc
>  [<1016d284>] handle_IRQ_event+0x70/0x150
>  [<1016d4b0>] __do_IRQ+0x14c/0x1cc
>  [<10112efc>] do_cpu_irq_mask+0x9c/0xd0
>  [<10116068>] intr_return+0x0/0x4
> 
> This crash seems to happen due to an uninitialized variable "rc".
> The compiler even warns about that:
>   CC      drivers/ide/ide-cd.o                                                         
> /mnt/sda4/home/cvs/parisc/git-kernel/linus-linux-2.6/drivers/ide/ide-cd.c: In function `cdrom_newpc_intr':
> /mnt/sda4/home/cvs/parisc/git-kernel/linus-linux-2.6/drivers/ide/ide-cd.c:612: warning: `rc' might be used uninitialized in this function
> 
> After applying the trivial patch below, which just initializes 
> the variable to zero, the kernel doesn't crash any longer:
> 
> Starting the hotplug events dispatcher: udevd.
> Synthesizing the initial hotplug events...
> hda: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hda: command error: error=0x54 <3>{ AbortedCommand LastFailedSense=0x05 }
> ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> done.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@xxxxxxxxx>

The original fix was correct. Helge, sorry for the delay but I wanted to
make sure that this wasn't caused by recent rewrite in another area of
ide-cd, thanks.

Bart, please apply.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.
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