From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [stable] [git patch] libata critical fix Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:26:16 -0700 Message-ID: <20071012162616.GA21137@kroah.com> References: <20071012042515.GA17066@havoc.gtf.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:59306 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762246AbXJLQd2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Oct 2007 12:33:28 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071012042515.GA17066@havoc.gtf.org> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, LKML , stable@kernel.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