linux-kernel - Re: [patch i2o 5/6] i2o

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Date:	Wed, 16 May 2007 08:58:37 +0400
From:	Vasily Averin <vvs@...ru>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	devel@...nvz.org, Markus Lidel <Markus.Lidel@...dowconnect.com>
Subject: Re: [patch i2o 5/6] i2o_proc files permission

Alan Cox wrote:
> On Tue, 15 May 2007 16:47:05 +0400
> Vasily Averin <vvs@...ru> wrote:
> 
>> Reading from some i2o related proc files can lead to the i2o controller hang due
>> unknown reasons. As a workaround this patch changes the permission of these
>> files to root-only accessible.
> 
> I guess you have a crap controller in this case. 
> 
> This isn't the right fix: Detect your specific buggy control and do not
> register the problem /proc nodes for it at all.

Alan,

We have i2o on one of our testnodes: Adaptec Zero channel RAID 2010S integrated
on MSI MS-9136 motherboard and I don't have access to another i2o hardware.
Also I don't have any ideas how to detect buggy i2o node. As far as I understand
Markus is right, and i2o hardware couldn't handle received message that on the
first glance looks correctly.
>From my POV it is bug in firmware and only vendor is able to fix it correctly.
My patch is not a fix but workaround only -- it just do not allow to crash the
node by any user in case when node admin due some reasons has loaded i2o_proc
module.

Thank you,
	Vasily Averin
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