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

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Message-ID: <20100820190719.GA8804@suse.de>
Date:	Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:07:19 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	Benjamin Gilbert <bgilbert@...cmu.edu>
Cc:	Ming Lei <tom.leiming@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.36-rc1 oopses at boot time in kobject allocation

On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 03:02:54PM -0400, Benjamin Gilbert wrote:
> 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.

Great, it's in my queue to go to Linus in a day or so.

thanks for testing.

greg k-h
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