----- "Dave Anderson" <anderson(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > ----- "Wei Jiang" <talk90091e(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: ... > > So this line > > 140 nr_cpus = (hdr_size - offset) / sizeof(dump_CPU_info_t); > > > > would not get a correct nr_cpus due to the sizeof(). > > > > A patch to fix this problem as below. > > BTW, what exactly are the ramifications without the patch -- does the > crash session die during initialization? How come nobody ran into > this issue given that the code has been in place for almost 2 years? Again -- what actually happens as a result of the incorrect nr_cpus calculation?

I need something to put in the crash.changelog. Dave