Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [stable] [PATCH 1/2] sd: fix memory corruption by sd_read_cache_type | From | James Bottomley <> | Date | Sat, 25 Feb 2006 23:14:48 -0600 |
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On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 16:01 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Perhaps equally importantly, let's get them into mainline if they are so > important. Which means that I want sign-offs and acks from the appropriate > people (scsi and original author, which is apparently Al).
Yes, I've been thinking about this. The problem is that it's a change to sd and a change to scsi_lib in a fairly critical routine. While I'm reasonably certain the change is safe, I'd prefer to make sure by incubating in -mm for a while.
The title, by the way, is misleading; it's not a memory corruption in sd at all really. It's the initio bridge which produces a totally standards non conformant return to a mode sense which produces the problem. And so, it's only the single initio bridge which is currently affected; hence the caution.
James
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