From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 18:52:02 -0400 From: Chris Frey Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] um: ubd: Fix data corruption Message-ID: <20100928225202.GA30352@foursquare.net> References: <1285710456-4435-1-git-send-email-richard@nod.at> <20100928150000.f007f43e.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <201009290013.11332.richard@nod.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201009290013.11332.richard@nod.at> To: Richard Weinberger Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jdike@addtoit.com, user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, user-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net, janjaap@bos.nl, geert@linux-m68k.org, jaxboe@fusionio.com, martin.petersen@oracle.com, adobriyan@gmail.com, syzop@vulnscan.org List-ID: On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 12:13:10AM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote: > Am Mittwoch 29 September 2010, 00:00:00 schrieb Andrew Morton: > > This is a workaround, I think? Do we know what the actual bug is? > > From the comment it appears to be a regression? > > Yes, it is a workaround. > For more details please have a look at this post: > http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/9/28/245 I'm going to run some tests to see how this works on my end, but in reading old threads, I found this response from Bram Matthys that casts some doubt on an older version of this patch. http://marc.info/?l=user-mode-linux-user&m=126883932731656&w=2 I've added him to the CC. - Chris