Re: 2.5.69-mm6: pccard oops while booting: round 2

[Andrew Morton]

Felipe Alfaro Solana <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address fceec0d7
>  printing eip:
> c016954f
> *pde = 00000000
> Oops: 0000 [#1]
> CPU:    0
> EIP:    0060:[<c016954f>]     Not tainted VLI
> EFLAGS: 00010246
> EIP is at sys_create_link+0xcf/0x130

bah.   That's totally different :(

But there seems to be a bug in there.

--- 25/fs/sysfs/symlink.c~sysfs_create_link-fix	2003-05-17 04:34:50.000000000 -0700
+++ 25-akpm/fs/sysfs/symlink.c	2003-05-17 04:34:56.000000000 -0700
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ int sysfs_create_link(struct kobject * k
 	char * s;
 
 	depth = object_depth(kobj);
-	size = object_path_length(target) + depth * 3 - 1;
+	size = object_path_length(target) + depth * 3 + 1;
 	if (size > PATH_MAX)
 		return -ENAMETOOLONG;
 	pr_debug("%s: depth = %d, size = %d\n",__FUNCTION__,depth,size);

That probably won't fix it though.