Re: todays git: WARNING: at drivers/ata/libata-sff.c:1017 ata_sff_hsm_move+0x45e/0x750()

Alan Cox
2009-01-10T12:27:37Z

> That's the typical REQUEST SENSE command with 18-byte data length.

Which means something has become horribly broken in the core libata stack.
An 18 byte inquiry would have 18 bytes as the *last* sg element. That
would therefore not trigger the WARN_ON. Someone has passed an sg list
that isn't properly terminated perhaps ?

I wonder if the pad code broke this.