From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [stable] [git patch] libata critical fix
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:26:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071012162616.GA21137@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071012042515.GA17066@havoc.gtf.org>
On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 12:25:15AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> There is a lingering corruption in sata_mv that took me several days to
> narrow down... the failure to mask off the lower 16 bits of the S/G
> length was leading to corruption, because this stomped on other
> important bits in that S/G entry.
>
> This should fix it (stable aka 2.6.23.1 needs this too):
I'm guessing that this is critical enough to do a 2.6.23.1 with this fix
in it right now. Any objections to that?
thanks,
greg k-h
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-12 16:33 UTC|newest]
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2007-10-12 4:25 [git patch] libata critical fix Jeff Garzik
2007-10-12 16:26 ` Greg KH [this message]
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