Re: 2.4.19: oops in ide-scsi

Philippe Troin (phil@fifi.org)
25 Sep 2002 09:46:13 -0700


James Stevenson <james@stev.org> writes:

> On Tue, 2002-09-24 at 22:00, Philippe Troin wrote:
> > James Stevenson <james@stev.org> writes:
> >
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > i am glad somebody else sees the same crash as me the
> > > request Q gets set to NULL for some reson then tries to
> > > increment a stats counter in the null pointer.
> > > i know what the bug is i just dont know how to fix it :>
> >
> > I'm not sure which Q you're talking about.
> > Is that rq (in idescsi_pc_intr())?
>
> the crash happens on
>
> if (status & ERR_STAT)
> rq->errors++;
>
> because
> struct request *rq = pc->rq;
> is NULL

Have you tried changing it to:

if (status & ERR_STAT && rq)
rq->errors++;

The code is going to return anyways, and rq is only used here on this
path.

BTW, can you reproduce the oops at will? I can't :-(

Phil.
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