Re: panic after r244584

From: Vitalij Satanivskij <satan_at_ukr.net>
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 15:34:15 +0200
Jaakko Heinonen wrote:
JH> On 2013-01-18, Alexander Motin wrote:
JH> > > AM> > V>  panic: make_dev_alias_v: bad si_name (error=22 si_name=enc_at_n5003048000bab37d/tpe0/slot_at_1/elmdesc_at_Slot 01/pass7)
JH> 
JH> > > AM> The panic is triggered by the check added by the recent r244584 change.
JH> > > AM> The space in device name came from the enclosure device, and I guess it
JH> > > AM> may be quite often situation. Using human readable name supposed to help
JH> > > AM> system administrators, but with spaces banned that may be a problem.
JH> > > 
JH> > > That's was not created by human, it was generated (I think so) by system. 
JH> > 
JH> > These strings are flashed into enclosure firmware by manufacturer.
JH> 
JH> You can't rely on that any string can be safely used as a device name
JH> even if spaces were allowed. Consider for example duplicate names and
JH> "../".
JH> 
JH> Where these names are generated? The original report didn't contain a
JH> backtrace.

Yes. No backtrace, because of switching off all debuging in kernel. 

For now I can't use that's server for testing, but there are another servers waiting for upgrade.

I will try to reproduce problem with  kernel debuger enabled.
Received on Fri Jan 18 2013 - 12:34:19 UTC

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