In article <200109281315.f8SDFpA01669@bmdipc2c.germany.agilent.com> you wrote:
> I traced the problem down to drivers/block/genhd.c,
> where the function get_partition_list() outer loop does not
> terminate due to the last element in the structured list starting
> with gendisk_head is not initialized to NULL, by whatever reason.
> My fix does not cure the pointered endless loop, but prevents
> from looping when stepping thru the pointered list.
I think the fix could be simpler. What about:
--- ../master/linux-2.4.10/drivers/block/genhd.c Sun Sep 23 21:20:52 2001
+++ linux-2.4.10/drivers/block/genhd.c Fri Sep 28 15:34:14 2001
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@
len = sprintf(page, "major minor #blocks name\n\n");
read_lock(&gendisk_lock);
- for (gp = gendisk_head; gp; gp = gp->next) {
+ for (gp = gendisk_head; gp != gendisk_head; gp = gp->next) {
for (n = 0; n < (gp->nr_real << gp->minor_shift); n++) {
if (gp->part[n].nr_sects == 0)
continue;
-
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