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* Bug in the sg driver
@ 2003-10-06 18:06 Dag Nygren
  2003-10-06 18:20 ` Randy.Dunlap
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 15+ messages in thread
From: Dag Nygren @ 2003-10-06 18:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel; +Cc: dag


Hi,

just got back from a customer with major problems
with a LTO-drive and an Adaptec 19160.

The problems was ones that HP claimed a firmware
upgrade would fix and even gave a tool for doing this:
hp_ltt.

Running this the first time would always segfault and trying
a second time would consistently panic the system.

We traced the segfault to sg_ioctl trying to do something.
After finding a vague hint with google I tried to boot with
mem=512M (The machine has 2GB of memory) and voila:
The update worked without any crashes.
We don't know yet if the firmware update fixed the original problem,
but the conclusion is:

sg_ioctl seems to address illegal parts of memory when used with
kernels where highmem is enabled.

Any sg-driver maintainers out there?

Best Regards

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2003-10-06 18:06 Bug in the sg driver Dag Nygren
2003-10-06 18:20 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-10-06 18:47   ` Dag Nygren
2003-10-06 18:47     ` Dag Nygren
2003-10-06 18:52     ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-10-06 18:52       ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-10-06 19:11       ` Dag Nygren
2003-10-06 19:11         ` Dag Nygren
2003-10-06 22:18         ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-10-07  5:47           ` Dag Nygren
2003-10-07 11:56             ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-10-07 12:03               ` Dag Nygren
2003-10-07 12:26                 ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-10-07 12:37                 ` Douglas Gilbert
2003-10-07 12:50                   ` Dag Nygren

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