Hi. This trivial patch adds a kmalloc check to ide-tape.c:: idetape_onstream_read_back_buffer as per the Stanford team's report way back. It applies against 244ac16. Reading the code I was not sure if it was OK to just return or more should be done. Please sanity check this. --- linux-244-ac11-clean/drivers/ide/ide-tape.c Sat May 19 21:06:35 2001 +++ linux-244-ac11/drivers/ide/ide-tape.c Sun May 20 14:58:44 2001 @@ -3472,6 +3472,11 @@ printk(KERN_INFO "ide-tape: %s: reading back %d frames from the drive's internal buffer\n", tape->name, frames); for (i = 0; i < frames; i++) { stage = __idetape_kmalloc_stage(tape, 0, 0); + if(!stage) { + printk(KERN_WARNING "(idetape:) Failed to allocate memory for +buffer\n"); + return; + } + if (!first) first = stage; aux = stage->aux; -- Regards, Rasmus([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 'Xenix is the pinnacle of modern UNIX design, and will be used for many years to come' -Xenix OS API manual - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/