Patch from Daniel McNeil This fixes an oops caused by incorrect usage of sector_div() in which_dev() in md/linear.c. It was dereferencing an non-existent hash table entry. 25-akpm/drivers/md/linear.c | 6 +++++- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN drivers/md/linear.c~linear-oops-fix-1 drivers/md/linear.c --- 25/drivers/md/linear.c~linear-oops-fix-1 Tue Mar 18 14:47:22 2003 +++ 25-akpm/drivers/md/linear.c Tue Mar 18 14:47:22 2003 @@ -37,7 +37,11 @@ static inline dev_info_t *which_dev(mdde linear_conf_t *conf = mddev_to_conf(mddev); sector_t block = sector >> 1; - hash = conf->hash_table + sector_div(block, conf->smallest->size); + /* + * sector_div(a,b) returns the remainer and sets a to a/b + */ + sector_div(block, conf->smallest->size); + hash = conf->hash_table + block; if ((sector>>1) >= (hash->dev0->size + hash->dev0->offset)) return hash->dev1; _