Hi, I just upgraded my system from 2.6.23.8 to 2.6.24.2, and when loading the advansys module, it paniced, with "Kernel BUG at advansys.c:6335". The issue is that the overrun buffer is not aligned on 8 bytes. The patch 7d5d408c77cee95d1380511de46b7a4c8dc2211d [1], by FUJITA Tomonori, which has been committed a few days ago, fixes the issue. The commit log says that the structure should be 8-byte aligned on 2.6.23 and 2.6.24, but it doesn't seem to be the case in 2.6.24. I have not identified which commit broke the driver, but I confirm that Tomonori's patch fixes the problem. I've added Greg and Chris as Cc: because such a patch should probably be included in the next -stable of 2.6.24, but of course Tomonori and Matthew are best placed to say what should be done. Thanks, Thomas [1] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=7d5d408c77cee95d1380511de46b7a4c8dc2211d -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Free Embedded Linux Training Materials on http://free-electrons.com/training (More than 1500 pages!)
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