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From: ml-raid@syscall.eu
To: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Possible bug
Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:39:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B1F7048.7080101@syscall.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091209125724.2652d413@notabene.brown>

Neil Brown wrote:
> This is not a RAID problem - it was a problem with the grsec patches.
> They assume that any atomic variable is used as a counter and should not
> overflow.  That is not the case with bd_disk->sync_io.  It is expected to
> overflow.  So the "PAX: ..." report is a false positive.
> 
Thank you,
i've reported the bug to the grsec guys.

Regards,
Raphaël
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      reply	other threads:[~2009-12-09  9:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-08 13:18 Possible bug ml-raid
2009-12-09  1:57 ` Neil Brown
2009-12-09  9:39   ` ml-raid [this message]

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