From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1945991AbWANDLE (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jan 2006 22:11:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1945992AbWANDLE (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jan 2006 22:11:04 -0500 Received: from liaag2ab.mx.compuserve.com ([149.174.40.153]:9650 "EHLO liaag2ab.mx.compuserve.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1945991AbWANDLC (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jan 2006 22:11:02 -0500 Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 22:07:32 -0500 From: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> Subject: Re: [patch] kobject: don't oops on null kobject.name To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, greg@kroah.com Message-ID: <200601132209_MC3-1-B5D3-F9A8@compuserve.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20060113143013.0ed0f9c0.akpm@osdl.org> References: <20060110184624.GA6721@aitel.hist.no> On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, Andrew Morton wrote: > Why did you choose kobject_get_path()? This is the piece of code that was oopsing in Helge Hafting's bug report: "2.6.15 OOPS while trying to mount cdrom". This patch solves that by fixing the symptoms. Details are in that thread. -- Chuck Currently reading: _Olympos_ by Dan Simmons