Re: pnpbios oops on boot w/ 2.5.47

[Andrew Morton]

Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> 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'.

err...

        node = pnpbios_kmalloc(node_info.max_node_size, GFP_KERNEL);

max_node_size appears to never be initialised.