On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 02:53:00PM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 09:55:20PM +0200, Maciej Rutecki wrote: > > Last known good: 2.6.34 > > Failing kernel: 2.6.35-rc1 > > > > subsystem: PCI, USB(?) > > > > Kernel dies during booting on message "ssb_is_sprom_available", see picture: > > http://www.unixy.pl/maciek/download/kernel/2.6.35-rc1/gumis/DSC_0011.JPG > > Um, looks like it's something to do with the Sonics Silicon Backplane, > not PCI, nor USB. Fix is on its way... commit da1fdb02d9200ff28b6f3a380d21930335fe5429 Author: Christoph Fritz <chf.fritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri May 28 10:45:59 2010 +0200 ssb: fix NULL ptr deref when pcihost_wrapper is used Ethernet driver b44 does register ssb by it's pcihost_wrapper and doesn't set ssb_chipcommon. A check on this value introduced with commit d53cdbb94a52a920d5420ed64d986c3523a56743 and ea2db495f92ad2cf3301623e60cb95b4062bc484 triggers: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000010 IP: [<c1266c36>] ssb_is_sprom_available+0x16/0x30 Signed-off-by: Christoph Fritz <chf.fritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx might be all we have. Be ready. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
