Re: [PATCH] scsi/ipr: Bugfix: add null pointer check for ioa_cfg

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On 11/12/2013 09:02 PM, Mike Qiu wrote:
> When we detects EEH errors during driver probe time, the error
> handlers of the driver are invoked by EEH core. Unfortunately,
> we haven't built some data structs that the error handlers
> refers to. That leads to kernel crash eventually.

This will only fix the kernel crash and not allow for recovery.
Wendy is working on a patch to support recovering from these
early EEH errors, so I'd prefer to wait and just push the one
patch, rather than have to revert this one once Wendy's
patch is ready.

Thanks,

Brian

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Brian King
Power Linux I/O
IBM Linux Technology Center


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