linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ide-cd: handle fragmented packet commands gracefully

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] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-Id: <20090626.092333.104882157.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:23:33 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	petkovbb@...glemail.com
Cc:	bzolnier@...il.com, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ide-cd: handle fragmented packet commands gracefully

From: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@...glemail.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:19:58 +0200

> Hi David,
> 
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 11:50:22AM +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
>> On Sunday 21 June 2009 10:55:27 Borislav Petkov wrote:
>> > There are some devices in the wild that clear the DRQ bit during the
>> > last word of a packet command and therefore could use a "second chance"
>> > for that last word of data to be xferred instead of simply failing the
>> > request. Do that by attempting to suck in those last bytes in PIO mode.
>> > 
>> > In addition, the ATA_ERR bit has to be cleared for we cannot be sure the
>> > data is valid otherwise.
>> > 
>> > See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13399 for details.
>> > 
>> > Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@...il.com>
>> 
>> Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>
> 
> can you pick that one too, please. I can't seem to find it on patchwork.

Yep, I'll dig into the archives to get it, I had this on my TODO
list.

Thanks!
--
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/