linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/6] Fixes for memory corruption in mpt2sas

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Message-ID: <55958F73.5070208@fb.com>
Date:	Thu, 2 Jul 2015 13:22:27 -0600
From:	Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>
To:	Calvin Owens <calvinowens@...com>,
	Nagalakshmi Nandigama <nagalakshmi.nandigama@...gotech.com>,
	Praveen Krishnamoorthy <praveen.krishnamoorthy@...gotech.com>,
	Sreekanth Reddy <sreekanth.reddy@...gotech.com>,
	Abhijit Mahajan <abhijit.mahajan@...gotech.com>
CC:	<MPT-FusionLinux.pdl@...gotech.com>, <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <kernel-team@...com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] Fixes for memory corruption in mpt2sas

On 05/14/2015 09:41 PM, Calvin Owens wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> This patchset attempts to address problems we've been having with
> panics due to memory corruption from the mpt2sas driver.
>
> I will provide a similar set of fixes for mpt3sas, since we see
> similar issues there as well. "Porting" this to mpt3sas will be
> trivial since the part of the driver I'm touching is nearly identical
> between the two, so I thought it would be simpler to review a patch
> against mpt2sas alone at first.
>
> I've tested this for a few days on a big storage box that seemed to be
> very susceptible to the panics, and so far it seems to have eliminated
> them.

Guys, can someone outside of FB please review this? We're hitting random 
memory corruptions without these fixes.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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