From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware: Fix an oops on reading fw_priv->fw in sysfs loading file
Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2012 17:12:13 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120103011213.GA21956@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1325536283-21159-1-git-send-email-nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 03:31:23PM -0500, Neil Horman wrote:
> This oops was reported recently:
> firmware_loading_store+0xf9/0x17b
> dev_attr_store+0x20/0x22
> sysfs_write_file+0x101/0x134
> vfs_write+0xac/0xf3
> sys_write+0x4a/0x6e
> system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
>
> The complete backtrace was unfortunately not captured, but details can be found
> here:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=769920
>
> The cause is fairly clear.
Thanks, this patch should also fix the same problem that the Motorola
developers were seeing, yet failed to create a useful patch for :)
greg k-h
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2012-01-02 20:31 Neil Horman
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