On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 12:49 -0500, Mike Christie wrote: > > I can't even say if the tapes are written correctly as I can't read them > > (one does not reboot production machines back to 2.4.x just to try to > > read a backup tape - I don't have 2.6.x older than 2.6.20 on these > > machines). > > Could you try this patch > http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=116464965414878&w=2 > I thought st was modified to not send offsets in the last elements but > it looks like it wasn't. Actually, there are two patches in the email referred to. If the analysis that we're passing NULL to mempool_free is correct, it should be the second one that fixes the problem (the one that checks bio->bi_io_vec before freeing it). Which would mean we have a nr_vecs==0 bio generated by the tar somehow. James - To unsubscribe from this list: 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