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Message-ID: <20071012162616.GA21137@kroah.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:26:16 -0700
From: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
linux-ide@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
stable@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [stable] [git patch] libata critical fix
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
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