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From: "Pekka Enberg" <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: "Neil Romig" <neil@romig.demon.co.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hyoshiok@miraclelinux.com
Subject: Re: File corruption when using kernels 2.6.18+
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 08:18:55 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <84144f020710022218x147ffc74y477c0a1be3e60d66@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4702B28F.5050404@romig.demon.co.uk>

Hi Neil,

On 10/3/07, Neil Romig <neil@romig.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> Thanks for your help on this. I have narrowed it down to commit
> "c22ce143d15eb288543fe9873e1c5ac1c01b69a1 x86: cache pollution aware
> __copy_from_user_ll()". This fits with the errors I'm getting, so now I need
> to find out if I can safely ignore this patch, or does it have to be modified?
> This is my first Linux bug in many years of simply using it, so I'm a little
> nervous!

Just to make sure, if you disable CONFIG_X86_INTEL_USERCOPY, the
corruption goes away?

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-03  5:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-30 15:40 Neil Romig
2007-09-30 16:29 ` Pekka Enberg
2007-10-02 21:05   ` Neil Romig
2007-10-03  5:18     ` Pekka Enberg [this message]
2007-10-03 18:42       ` Neil Romig
2007-10-03 18:48         ` Pekka Enberg
2007-10-03 19:22           ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-03 19:35             ` Pekka Enberg
2007-10-03 19:54               ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-04  1:11                 ` Hiro Yoshioka
2007-10-03 20:30               ` Alan Cox
2007-10-04 18:34                 ` Neil Romig
2007-10-02 22:30 ` Chuck Ebbert
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     [not found] ` <fa.R+FhT6IGmV/dDweUt/MdSeA5YbQ@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found]   ` <fa.7MxTIt/ik0uRFN/lMWUasYV/JyE@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found]     ` <fa.YJ4uCPzXT5TQElSosyz98cpuMSc@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found]       ` <fa.Tp9UUX9EYprQyLg0shgH1YG9DDM@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found]         ` <fa.PzpJEEoLXfC+eOQZjTWjdf9vdnE@ifi.uio.no>
2007-10-04  2:59           ` Robert Hancock
2007-10-04  3:39             ` Linus Torvalds

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