2.5.44 and Secondary Channel Only configuration Kernel Ooops
PATCH 1/1 2.5.44 and Secondary Channel Only configuration Kernel Ooops
Here is a patch to correct the problem with the IDE code when you have the Secondary Channel Only enabled in your BIOS. If you have only the secondary channel enabled, a null pointer get passed to the ide_iomio_dma function as the part of the hwif var (more specifically hwif->mate) This patch puts in some extra sanity checks in that section so make sure we don't hit the null.
Jason
P.S. This is a continuation of a previous patch I submitted for 2.5.43 which wasn't committed and I didn't send that to the maintainer (Sorry Andre) so I am resending it now as a patch to the 2.5.44 kernel.
drivers/ide/ide-dma.c +12 -2
@@ -905,7 +905,12 @@request_region (base+16 , hwif->cds->extra, hwif->cds->name); hwif->dma_extra = hwif->cds->extra; } - hwif->dma_master = (hwif->channel) ? hwif->mate->dma_base : base; +if (!hwif->mate && hwif->channel){ + hwif->dma_master=base; + } +else { + hwif->dma_master = (hwif->channel) ? hwif->mate->dma_base : base; + }if (hwif->dma_base2) {if (!check_mem_region (hwif->dma_base2, ports))request_mem_region (hwif->dma_base2, ports, hwif->name);
@@ -925,8 +930,13 @@if ((hwif->cds->extra) && (hwif->channel ==0 )) {request_region (base+16 , hwif->cds->extra, hwif->cds->name); hwif->dma_extra = hwif->cds->extra; + } +if (!hwif->mate && hwif->channel){ + hwif->dma_master=base; + } +else { + hwif->dma_master = (hwif->channel) ? hwif->mate->dma_base : base; } - hwif->dma_master = (hwif->channel) ? hwif->mate->dma_base : base;if (hwif->dma_base2) {if (!request_region (hwif->dma_base2, ports, hwif->name)) {