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

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Date:	Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:02:54 -0400
From:	Benjamin Gilbert <bgilbert@...cmu.edu>
To:	Ming Lei <tom.leiming@...il.com>
CC:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.36-rc1 oopses at boot time in kobject allocation

Ming Lei wrote:
> 2010/8/20 Benjamin Gilbert <bgilbert@...cmu.edu>:
>> 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.

The patch fixes it for me.  Thanks.

--Benjamin Gilbert

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