linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.36-rc1 oopses at boot time in kobject allocation

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Message-ID: <AANLkTikkiD7qfHqkMSq3id=ap6V6gvsddca+tc8Q+bk0@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:53:31 +0800
From:	Ming Lei <tom.leiming@...il.com>
To:	Benjamin Gilbert <bgilbert@...cmu.edu>
Cc:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.36-rc1 oopses at boot time in kobject allocation

2010/8/20 Benjamin Gilbert <bgilbert@...cmu.edu>:
> On 08/19/2010 04:34 PM, Greg KH wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 04:22:33PM -0400, Benjamin Gilbert wrote:
>>> 2.6.36-rc1 and 2.6.36-rc1-127-g763008c fail to boot for me:
>>
>> Can you run 'git bisect' to try to track this down?
>
> commit f8a4bd3456b988fc73b2c291b9e01b434c8fa940
> Author: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
> Date:   Fri Jun 4 00:54:43 2010 -0700
>
>    firmware loader: embed device into firmware_priv structure

This commit does introduce one possible double free, maybe is related with
the issue, please try the attachment patch to see if the oops can be fixed.


-- 
Lei Ming

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