Re: 2.5.69-mm6: pccard oops while booting: round 2

[Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe_alfaro@linuxmail.org>]

On Sat, 2003-05-17 at 13:39, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe_alfaro@linuxmail.org> wrote:
> >
> > Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address fceec0d7
> >  printing eip:
> > c016954f
> > *pde = 00000000
> > Oops: 0000 [#1]
> > CPU:    0
> > EIP:    0060:[<c016954f>]     Not tainted VLI
> > EFLAGS: 00010246
> > EIP is at sys_create_link+0xcf/0x130
> 
> bah.   That's totally different :(
> 
> But there seems to be a bug in there.
> 
> --- 25/fs/sysfs/symlink.c~sysfs_create_link-fix	2003-05-17 04:34:50.000000000 -0700
> +++ 25-akpm/fs/sysfs/symlink.c	2003-05-17 04:34:56.000000000 -0700
> @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ int sysfs_create_link(struct kobject * k
>  	char * s;
>  
>  	depth = object_depth(kobj);
> -	size = object_path_length(target) + depth * 3 - 1;
> +	size = object_path_length(target) + depth * 3 + 1;
>  	if (size > PATH_MAX)
>  		return -ENAMETOOLONG;
>  	pr_debug("%s: depth = %d, size = %d\n",__FUNCTION__,depth,size);
> 
> That probably won't fix it though.

I'm sorry to say the above patch doesn't fix the problem :-(