> > BTW, this says that this is the second oops: "[#2]". > > What was the first one? > Apr 21 10:53:27 www adaptec-smbe: aiomgrd startup succeeded > Apr 21 10:53:27 www kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL > pointer dereference > at virtual address 00000034 Seems to me like someone is issuing IOCTL's against devices that do not exist. Does this patch against linux-2.6.12-rc3 make sense and applicable to you? Seems like aac_cfg_open() will return success even if it fails? This patch fixes it to actually return error. Regards, Rayan diff -Nupr -X dontdiff linux-2.6.12-rc3.a/drivers/scsi/aacraid/linit.c linux-2.6.12-rc3.b/drivers/scsi/aacraid/linit.c --- linux-2.6.12-rc3.a/drivers/scsi/aacraid/linit.c 2005-04-21 23:56:31.000000000 -0700 +++ linux-2.6.12-rc3.b/drivers/scsi/aacraid/linit.c 2005-04-21 23:57:26.000000000 -0700 @@ -450,7 +450,7 @@ static int aac_cfg_open(struct inode *in } } - return 0; + return err; } /** - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
