linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.29-rc2 dies on startup

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Date:	Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:40:02 -0800
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@...roid.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ferenc Wagner <wferi@...f.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.29-rc2 dies on startup

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 04:29:55PM -0800, Arve Hjønnevåg wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Andrew Morton
> <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > At a guess I'd say that drivers/staging/android/ram_console.c is calling
> > the reed-solomon code earlier than it's expecting.  But that might be
> > totally wrong.
> 
> Yes, but it also is trying to use a zero sized buffer at virtual
> address 0 so it will not work much better if you turn off ecc.
> 
> This patch (to the android kernel tree) add some validation:

<snip>

Care to redo this for the current tree so that I can apply it?

thanks,

greg k-h
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