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From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
To: Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] removal of legacy cdrom drivers (Re: [PATCH] mcdx.c insanity removal)
Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 22:34:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040503213419.GH17014@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4096B810.5060907@keyaccess.nl>

On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 11:22:24PM +0200, Rene Herman wrote:
> viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk wrote:
> 
> >>However, any "cp" from cd-rom oopses the box.
> >
> >oopses in driver, oopses by triggering BUG() or oopses in fs/*?  The last
> >two would be more interesting - isofs _MUST_ be able to survive any IO
> >errors, simply because CDs get scratched, etc. and that shouldn't crash
> >the box.
> 
> Doesn't actually look all driver. The CD is good; works fine in this 
> same drive with its own 2.0 kernel (and on other drives). Please note, 
> this is a 386. Memory is good. dmesg and .config attached.
> 
> Very long crash, but in case it's helpful. Happens when copying anything 
> from the sbpcd CD-ROM. In between the "do_exit, do_divide_error, 
> do_page_fault, do_page_fault" oopses it seems to be attempting to give 
> me back a prompt (it's not succeeding).

Almost certainly a driver-induced memory corruption.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-05-03 21:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20040502024637.GV17014@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
     [not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.58.0405011953140.18014@ppc970.osdl.org>
2004-05-03  1:16   ` viro
2004-05-03  3:21     ` Rene Herman
2004-05-03  5:59       ` viro
2004-05-03 18:08         ` Rene Herman
2004-05-03 19:45           ` viro
2004-05-03 21:22             ` Rene Herman
2004-05-03 21:30               ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-03 21:34               ` viro [this message]
2004-05-05 23:41     ` Adrian Bunk

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