Re: pnpbios oops on boot w/ 2.5.47

Andrew Morton (akpm@digeo.com)
Sat, 16 Nov 2002 14:08:28 -0800


Justin A wrote:
>
> Hi :)
>
> I tried to "port" kmsgdump to 2.5.47 and for some reason, it worked.
>
> Attached is the full dmesg
>
> Alan: I ran dmidecode under 2.4.19 which said simply "PNP BIOS present"
>
> This is a thinkpad 760e, really old..I don't even think I need pnpbios support
> for anything. 2.5.47/2.5.47-ac5 boot with pnpbios turned off, so I think you
> just need to add this to your blacklist?
>

The BUG in slab indicates that something overran the end of a kmalloced
buffer. That'll be either pnp_bios_get_dev_node() or node_set_resources()
ran off the end of `node'.
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