From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joerg Dorchain Subject: Re: [stable] [patch 29/29] bug in gdth.c crashing machine Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 21:05:54 +0100 Message-ID: <20070307200554.GQ3250@Redstar.dorchain.net> References: <200703061046.l26AksTi020093@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> <1173288505.3771.33.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> <20070307174021.GA25066@kroah.com> <20070307111616.16e5e641.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="JZZUlh2R5zuJqba0" Return-path: Received: from RedStar.dorchain.net ([212.88.133.153]:46077 "EHLO Redstar.dorchain.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965629AbXCGU2X (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Mar 2007 15:28:23 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070307111616.16e5e641.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Andrew Morton Cc: Greg KH , James Bottomley , rdunlap@xenotime.net, Achim_Leubner@adaptec.com, joerg@dorchain.net, stable@kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org --JZZUlh2R5zuJqba0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 11:16:16AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 11:28:25AM -0600, James Bottomley wrote: > > > On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 02:46 -0800, akpm@linux-foundation.org wrote: > > > > From: Joerg Dorchain > > > >=20 > > > > Undocumented... > > >=20 > > > This is a bit of a problem, isn't it? > > >=20 > > > I have no report of any problem this fixes, and no input from the gdth > > > maintainer about this. The first I actually knew of this patch reque= st > > > is that it appeared in an akpm patch stream yesterday. > > >=20 > > > I really think we need more details before this gets applied to > > > anything, let alone the stable tree. > >=20 > > Randy did forward it to the stable team a while ago too, but I didn't > > know even what tree it applied to as the patch level was a bit off. I > > think he might have some more information about it? > >=20 >=20 > Achim did reply: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/23/138 The current gdth driver crashes the machine with a panic() when accessing certain tape drives, really not a good thing for stable. This patch fixes it, tested by me and acknowledged by Achim. See http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/13/60 and http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/12/35 for further reference. The patch is against Linus' 2.6.20 Bye, Joerg --JZZUlh2R5zuJqba0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF7xsijY4+4PdzvOARAjr/AJ9XarMAfBCPmGM1iX7ZElBZe/OuGQCfZzfR oAkbPTxwMGeUpE3Zg/onrSo= =/n80 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --JZZUlh2R5zuJqba0--