Okrain Genady [off-list ref] wrote:

This error started with -mm2:

# lilo
<1>Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 
00000000
 printing eip:
c029f9b2
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000 [#4]
PREEMPT
CPU:    0
EIP:    0060:[<c029f9b2>]    Tainted: PF  VLI
EFLAGS: 00010246
EIP is at generic_ide_ioctl+0x352/0x8b0
eax: 00000000   ebx: bfffec70   ecx: 0000e7a2   edx: 00000000
esi: bfffec68   edi: c87ca000   ebp: c87cbf68   esp: c87cbf2c
ds: 007b   es: 007b   ss: 0068
Process lilo (pid: 5503, threadinfo=c87ca000 task=c8eac080)
Stack: c03c76db 0000064e c7853200 fffffff2 00000000 00000000 e7a20003 c04ccb8c
       cfa7e000 c87cbf9c c0153b66 cf5ae6c0 cfd33e40 c02a3a60 cf619680 c87cbf90
       c0268235 cfd33e40 00000301 bfffec68 bfffec68 00000001 00000301 c7853200
Call Trace:
 [<c0153b66>] filp_open+0x66/0x70
 [<c02a3a60>] idedisk_ioctl+0x0/0x30

Al has sent through a fix for this.


diff -puN include/linux/genhd.h~large-dev_t-12-fix include/linux/genhd.h

--- 25/include/linux/genhd.h~large-dev_t-12-fix	2003-08-27 10:36:32.000000000 -0700
+++ 25-akpm/include/linux/genhd.h	2003-08-27 10:36:32.000000000 -0700

@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ extern void rand_initialize_disk(struct 
 
 static inline sector_t get_start_sect(struct block_device *bdev)
 {
-	return bdev->bd_part->start_sect;
+	return bdev->bd_contains == bdev ? 0 : bdev->bd_part->start_sect;
 }
 static inline sector_t get_capacity(struct gendisk *disk)
 {

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