Re: initrd oops with 2.4.5ac2: FIXED by Kawashima (the other oops may remain)

[Ville Herva]

On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 06:02:54PM +0900, you [Masaru Kawashima] claimed:
> On Mon, 28 May 2001 10:25:51 +0300
> Ville Herva <[e-mail]> wrote:
> > The oops call trace seems to be the same as in 
> > 
> > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=99079948404775&w=2
> > 
> > Any ideas?
> 
> Did you try the patch posted by Go Taniguchi <[e-mail]>?
> Following is the copy of his message and the patch itself.
> 
> --- linux/fs/block_dev.c.orig	Mon May 28 12:40:12 2001
> +++ linux/fs/block_dev.c	Mon May 28 12:40:12 2001
> @@ -602,6 +602,7 @@
>  	if (!bdev->bd_op->ioctl)
>  		return -EINVAL;
>  	inode_fake.i_rdev=rdev;
> +	inode_fake.i_bdev=bdev;
>  	init_waitqueue_head(&inode_fake.i_wait);
>  	set_fs(KERNEL_DS);
>  	res = bdev->bd_op->ioctl(&inode_fake, NULL, cmd, arg);

Yes, I actually spotted the patch on l-k just a while ago and tried it.

It does fix the initrd case; I haven't tried the grub case, but I suspect it
still remains. Will try that as well asap.

Thanks,

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