New: gdth: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000c

Bugme-new Andrew Morton 1 participant 1 message Feb 21, 2008 1 message not in the archive SCSI

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2008-02-21 12:49 UTC #1 lore raw

Quoted 33 lines · On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:44:45 -0800 (PST) [email protected] wrote:

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10057
           Summary: gdth: unable to handle kernel NULL  pointer dereference
                    at virtual address 0000000c
           Product: Drivers
           Version: 2.5
     KernelVersion: 2.6.24.2
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Linux
              Tree: Mainline
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P1
         Component: Other
        AssignedTo: [email protected]
        ReportedBy: [email protected]
Latest working kernel version: 2.6.22.18
Earliest failing kernel version: 2.6.24
Distribution: Debian Etch, i386
Hardware Environment: X6DAE-G2, 1x Xeon 2800, 2G, NVIDIA 5700 256MB PCI-X, Adaptec AHA-2940U/UW/D / AIC-7881U, GDT8586RZ with 4x250G RAID5 + 4x500G RAID5, 1x 80G IDE HDD, 1x IDE CD-ROM
Software Environment: -
Problem Description: no scsi device available + system crash
Steps to reproduce: The module gets loaded on startup, but no raid scsi device is available.
Trying to access the controller stats or rebooting the system result in a system crash.

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# cat /proc/scsi/gdth/0
Segmentation fault
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(crash)
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This regression was filed under drivers_other so I guess linux-scsi didn't get a copy.

I'll recategorise it.

Boaz, if you're actually gdth maintainer then you might care to raise a patch against ./MAINTAINERS.

You don't appear to have a bugzilla account.