On Wed, 7 Sep 2005 06:04:36 -0500 Milton Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > > Does anything actually break without this patch? Yes, an iSeries box will not boot. > My reading of unregister_console says we will acquire > the console semaphore, walk the list, fail to find the > console, relase the semaphore, and return. Consider the case that console_drivers == NULL (because we have never called register_console). unregister_console dereferences console_drivers ... -- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell [email protected] http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/
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