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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: jt@hpl.hp.com
Cc: johannes@sipsolutions.net, shaddy_baddah@hotmail.com,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, dsd@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: zd1211rw (2.6.22 sparc64): unaligned access (do_rx)
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 13:56:42 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071120.135642.267507461.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071120174330.GB1480@bougret.hpl.hp.com>

From: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 09:43:30 -0800

> On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 11:42:01PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> > From: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>
> > Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:35:54 -0800
> > 
> > > I don't have a 64 bit box.
> > 
> > Let me know when you have joined us in the 21st century.
> 
> 	Well, if you are so rich, please send me a new computer. I'm
> not paid to do any of this stuff.

The irony is that you don't even need a 64-bit system to work on this
kind of bug, consider qemu or similar.

But on my side I did all of my analysis with code inspection.

> 	As I was saying, we made a lot of progress in the last few
> months. And it works.

If you look at my bug fix, wext does anything but work, it writes over
random data in userspace on all 64-bit platforms.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-20 21:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-19  0:56 zd1211rw (2.6.22 sparc64): unaligned access (do_rx) Shaddy Baddah
2007-11-19  8:27 ` David Miller
2007-11-19 12:11   ` Shaddy Baddah
2007-11-19 12:19     ` David Miller
2007-11-21 13:08     ` Shaddy Baddah
2007-11-19 15:03   ` Johannes Berg
2007-11-19 18:04     ` Jean Tourrilhes
2007-11-21 13:18       ` Shaddy Baddah
2007-11-21 13:30         ` Shaddy Baddah
2007-11-21 14:23           ` Daniel Drake
2007-11-21 18:05             ` Kyle McMartin
2007-11-30  5:31             ` Shaddy Baddah
2007-11-21 14:33           ` Daniel Drake
2007-11-21 18:44         ` Jean Tourrilhes
2007-11-30  3:42           ` Shaddy Baddah
2007-11-30 20:21             ` Jean Tourrilhes
2007-12-04  0:01               ` Jean Tourrilhes
     [not found]                 ` <4756AABC.3000204@hotmail.com>
     [not found]                   ` <20071205215600.GA28349@bougret.hpl.hp.com>
2007-12-05 23:25                     ` Shaddy Baddah
2007-12-05 23:40                       ` Jean Tourrilhes
2007-12-06 21:59                       ` Jean Tourrilhes
2007-12-06  2:36                     ` David Miller
2007-12-06 21:25                       ` Jean Tourrilhes
2007-12-06 21:33                         ` Michael Buesch
2007-12-06 21:43                           ` Jean Tourrilhes
2007-12-07  3:52                             ` David Miller
2007-12-07 11:35                               ` Michael Buesch
2007-12-07 12:34                                 ` David Miller
2007-12-07 13:36                                   ` Michael Buesch
2007-12-07 14:48                                     ` Daniel Drake
2007-12-08  1:36                                       ` David Miller
2007-12-08  1:35                                     ` David Miller
2007-12-08 11:21                                       ` Michael Buesch
2007-12-08 12:54                                         ` Daniel Drake
2007-12-07  3:50                           ` David Miller
2007-12-07  3:49                         ` David Miller
2007-11-19 22:20     ` David Miller
2007-11-19 22:35       ` Jean Tourrilhes
2007-11-20  7:42         ` David Miller
2007-11-20 17:43           ` Jean Tourrilhes
2007-11-20 21:56             ` David Miller [this message]
2007-11-20 12:40       ` Johannes Berg
2007-11-20 12:46         ` David Miller
     [not found]           ` <20071120180016.GC1480@bougret.hpl.hp.com>
2007-11-20 21:58             ` David Miller
2007-11-20 22:08               ` John W. Linville
2007-11-20 22:38                 ` David Miller
2007-11-20 22:16               ` Jean Tourrilhes
2007-11-20 22:41                 ` David Miller
     [not found]             ` <20071120180601.GA2019@bougret.hpl.hp.com>
     [not found]               ` <47443430.3010504@hotmail.com>
2007-11-21 19:06                 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2007-11-20 17:38         ` Jean Tourrilhes
2007-11-20 12:34   ` David Miller
2007-11-20 13:15     ` Johannes Berg

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