On Thu, 2012-01-12 at 13:07 -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: > Package: linux-2.6 > Version: 3.1.8-2 > Severity: important > > I had a USB disk which previously had a small bootable image 'dd'ed to it, such > that it had a 27MB magic "partition". (One of the dual iso/USB bootable > images.) I ran gparted on the disk to reformat it as one big FAT32 disk. I > then closed gparted, unplugged the USB disk, and plugged it back in. Something > during the last three steps triggered a kernel NULL pointer deference. [...] This bug (or similar bugs) appear to be well-known but unfortunately not yet understood upstream: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.scsi/71174 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.scsi/71496 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1233532 Ben. -- Ben Hutchings When in doubt, use brute force. - Ken Thompson
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