Re: [PATCH 0/3] ide: Fix use of paired device

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz]

On Thursday 18 October 2007, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> At least 2 drivers (siimage and cs5535) have a bug where they use
> the construct:
> 
> 	ide_drive_t *pair	= &hwif->drives[drive->dn ^ 1];
> 
> To access the other drive in a master/slave pair. This is bogus
> because drive->dn is not the unit number, but the global drive
> number, thus can be 2 & 3 for ide1, 4 & 5 for ide2 etc...
> 
> This causes the driver to access beyond the drive array into lalaland
> for any other interface than ide0 and in some case, actually crash :-)
> 
> These 3 patches fix those by introducing a ide_get_paired_drive()
> helper that does the right thing and then using it.
> 
> Please apply to 2.6.24 if no objection.

Thanks for debugging and fixing this!

All three patches applied.

Bart
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