lists.openwall.net   lists  /  announce  owl-users  owl-dev  john-users  john-dev  passwdqc-users  yescrypt  popa3d-users  /  oss-security  kernel-hardening  musl  sabotage  tlsify  passwords  /  crypt-dev  xvendor  /  Bugtraq  Full-Disclosure  linux-kernel  linux-netdev  linux-ext4  linux-hardening  linux-cve-announce  PHC 
Open Source and information security mailing list archives
 
Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.
[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Date:	Tue, 19 Dec 2006 08:32:04 -0600
From:	Robert Hancock <hancockr@...w.ca>
To:	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
Cc:	Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@....ed.ac.uk>,
	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1

Jens Axboe wrote:
> Just noticed that most of the mails I wrote on this thread were
> apparently without linux-kernel cc'ed (dunno who removed the cc). So
> I'll write a small summary - the problem is that hddtemp includes some
> fragile code to check the sense info, and this commit:
> 
> http://git.kernel.dk/?p=linux-2.6-block.git;a=commit;h=f38621b3109068adc8430bc2d170ccea59df4261
> 
> broke it. hddtemp expects 14, but it now sees 12. IMHO hddtemp is buggy
> and should be fixed, the best option is simply to kill the sense checks
> as I think they have little (if any) value. Patch below for that.
> 
> So the problem was never the SG_IO changes, the fact that somebody
> noticed the same thing in bugzilla for a 2.6.19-rc6-mm kernel backs that
> up.

 From what I've seen it appears that smartctl has the same problem, it 
was also reporting the device didn't support SMART..

-- 
Robert Hancock      Saskatoon, SK, Canada
To email, remove "nospam" from hancockr@...pamshaw.ca
Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/


-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Powered by blists - more mailing lists