From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Subject: Re: question on patch: ide: do_identify() string termination fix [PATCH 2.6.11-rc2 08/29] Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 20:44:21 +0100 Message-ID: <200711022044.21474.bzolnier@gmail.com> References: <987926.65237.qm@web55214.mail.re4.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.191]:59724 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754824AbXKBWIO (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Nov 2007 18:08:14 -0400 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id g13so940294nfb for ; Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:08:12 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <987926.65237.qm@web55214.mail.re4.yahoo.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Yanping Du Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday 30 October 2007, Yanping Du wrote: > Hi, > > We hit an NMI watchdog on cpu lockup (trace below) > and I suspect it might be related to following string > termination bug. However I wonder why this bug fix is > not incorporated in latest mainline kernel (2.6.23.1 it must have slipped through the cracks... > as I checked). The bug fix seems straightforward to > me. Did I miss anything ? Our kernel is 2.6.12. > > http://osdir.com/ml/ide/2005-02/msg00038.html applied