From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758328AbXJLQfl (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Oct 2007 12:35:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762255AbXJLQd3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Oct 2007 12:33:29 -0400 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 Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:26:16 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, LKML , stable@kernel.org Subject: Re: [stable] [git patch] libata critical fix Message-ID: <20071012162616.GA21137@kroah.com> References: <20071012042515.GA17066@havoc.gtf.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071012042515.GA17066@havoc.gtf.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.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