On Mon, 2012-10-08 at 10:37 -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 07, 2012 at 09:57:47PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > >> Based on <https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46481>, the > >> following commit should be cherry-picked for stable series < 3.6: > >> > >> commit dfb117b3e50c52c7b3416db4a4569224b8db80bb > >> Author: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx> > >> Date: Wed Jun 20 16:18:29 2012 -0600 > >> > >> PCI: acpiphp: check whether _ADR evaluation succeeded > >> > >> It applies cleanly to 3.2.y and presumably also to later stable > >> branches. I've attached a version that applies to 2.6.32.y and 3.0.y, > >> and presumably also to the intermediate stable branches. Only 3.2.y has > >> actually been tested with this, though. > > > > Thanks, now applied. > > Has anybody looked deeper to see exactly *how* this patch fixes the > problem? The original reports were oopses caused by dereferencing bad > pointers in DRM, and it's not obvious to me how this patch is > connected to those. Oh, I completely missed the oops log. Yes, it does look like there's another more serious bug still to be fixed in 3.2.y (maybe in DRM, maybe not). Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Who are all these weirdos? - David Bowie, about L-Space IRC channel #afp
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