Re: pnpbios oops on boot w/ 2.5.47

[Andrew Morton]

Justin A wrote:
> 
> Hi :)
> 
> I tried to "port" kmsgdump to 2.5.47 and for some reason, it worked.
> 
> Attached is the full dmesg
> 
> Alan: I ran dmidecode under 2.4.19 which said simply "PNP BIOS present"
> 
> This is a thinkpad 760e, really old..I don't even think I need pnpbios support
> for anything.  2.5.47/2.5.47-ac5 boot with pnpbios turned off, so I think you
> just need to add this to your blacklist?
> 

The BUG in slab indicates that something overran the end of a kmalloced
buffer.  That'll be either pnp_bios_get_dev_node() or node_set_resources()
ran off the end of `node'.