linux-kernel - Re: todays git: WARNING: at drivers/ata/libata-sff.c:1017 ata_sff_hsm

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]

Message-ID: <20090110135350.4eef6c59@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date:	Sat, 10 Jan 2009 13:53:50 +0000
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@...mvista.com>,
	Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>,
	linux-ide@...r.kernel.org, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...hat.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: todays git: WARNING: at drivers/ata/libata-sff.c:1017
 ata_sff_hsm_move+0x45e/0x750()

> > 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.
> 
> note, one of my testboxes in the -tip testing hw pool (an older HP laptop) 
> started triggering this too today:

No suprise - the traces I've got seem to indicate a bogus sg list from
the core libata code. If so its general and the 32bit pio is just showing
it up.
--
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/