Re: BUG: pdcraid OOPS due to uninitialized variable access

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
15 Jul 2002 00:11:12 +0100

On Sun, 2002-07-14 at 18:34, Borsenkow Andrej wrote:
> On both 2.4.18-6mdk (from 8.2) and in current cooker pdcraid oopses
> immediately after insertion. The reason is usage of uninitialized
> variable in drivers/ide/pdcraid.c:
>
> I am sorry, I do not have vanilla kernel so I cannot check if bug is in
> general kernel or Mandrake-specific.

This appears to be broken vendor specific hack. This code doesn't appear
in the base pdcraid code. I guess they tried to make the autodetect more
accurate and got it wrong. It would be interesting to know what the goal
was and why it wasnt posted to the maintainers ?

Alan

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