Re: linux-2.6.0-test5-mm1

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

Voicu Liviu <pacman@mscc.huji.ac.il> wrote:
>
> This happens after I load alsa modules on boot..............
> 
> <from_dmesg>
> 
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 308k freed
> Adding 313228k swap on /dev/hda6.  Priority:-1 extents:1
> PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 0000:00:09.0
> PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 0000:00:04.2
> Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffffffef


diff -puN fs/sysfs/dir.c~sysfs-create_dir-oops-fix fs/sysfs/dir.c
--- 25/fs/sysfs/dir.c~sysfs-create_dir-oops-fix	Wed Sep 10 15:46:50 2003
+++ 25-akpm/fs/sysfs/dir.c	Wed Sep 10 15:46:50 2003
@@ -24,10 +24,11 @@ static int init_dir(struct inode * inode
 static struct dentry * 
 create_dir(struct kobject * k, struct dentry * p, const char * n)
 {
-	struct dentry * dentry;
+	struct dentry *dentry, *ret;
 
 	down(&p->d_inode->i_sem);
 	dentry = sysfs_get_dentry(p,n);
+	ret = dentry;
 	if (!IS_ERR(dentry)) {
 		int error = sysfs_create(dentry,
 					 S_IFDIR| S_IRWXU | S_IRUGO | S_IXUGO,
@@ -36,11 +37,11 @@ create_dir(struct kobject * k, struct de
 			dentry->d_fsdata = k;
 			p->d_inode->i_nlink++;
 		} else
-			dentry = ERR_PTR(error);
+			ret = ERR_PTR(error);
 		dput(dentry);
 	}
 	up(&p->d_inode->i_sem);
-	return dentry;
+	return ret;
 }
 
 

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