Re: [PowerPC] Next May 8 boot failure: OOPS during ibmveth moduleinit

2009-05-12 Thread Stephen Rothwell
Hi Dave, On Tue, 12 May 2009 17:44:51 +1000 Stephen Rothwell wrote: > > From: Stephen Rothwell > Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 17:24:02 +1000 > Subject: [PATCH] net/ibmveth: fix panic in probe > > netdev->dev_addr changed from being an array to being a pointer, so we > should not take its address for

Re: [PowerPC] Next May 8 boot failure: OOPS during ibmveth moduleinit

2009-05-12 Thread Wei Yongjun
Stephen Rothwell wrote: Hi Dave, This fixes it (I wonder if this bug is lurking in any other drivers): Yes, there are some other exists. This spatch script can help to found this. (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) # cat netdev_dev_addr.cocci @@ struct net_device *dev; @@ memcpy( - &de

Re: [PowerPC] Next May 8 boot failure: OOPS during ibmveth moduleinit

2009-05-12 Thread Jiri Pirko
Tue, May 12, 2009 at 09:44:51AM CEST, s...@canb.auug.org.au wrote: >Hi Dave, > >This fixes it (I wonder if this bug is lurking in any other drivers): Grepping the sources I see some other places suffering this problem. I'll send patch for this. > >From: Stephen Rothwell >Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 17:

Re: [PowerPC] Next May 8 boot failure: OOPS during ibmveth moduleinit

2009-05-12 Thread Stephen Rothwell
Hi Dave, This fixes it (I wonder if this bug is lurking in any other drivers): From: Stephen Rothwell Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 17:24:02 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] net/ibmveth: fix panic in probe netdev->dev_addr changed from being an array to being a pointer, so we should not take its address for mem

Re: [PowerPC] Next May 8 boot failure: OOPS during ibmveth moduleinit

2009-05-12 Thread Stephen Rothwell
Hi all, On Mon, 11 May 2009 22:37:09 +0530 Sachin Sant wrote: > > Jiri Pirko wrote: > > Fri, May 08, 2009 at 09:57:22PM CEST, da...@davemloft.net wrote: > > > >> From: Sachin Sant > >> Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 18:22:48 +0530 > >> > >> > >>> Todays Next failed to boot on a Power6 JS22 blade

Re: [PowerPC] Next May 8 boot failure: OOPS during ibmveth moduleinit

2009-05-11 Thread Sachin Sant
Jiri Pirko wrote: Fri, May 08, 2009 at 09:57:22PM CEST, da...@davemloft.net wrote: From: Sachin Sant Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 18:22:48 +0530 Todays Next failed to boot on a Power6 JS22 blade with following oops. Jiri, I suspect this might be your address list changes. Although