Re: todays git: WARNING: at drivers/ata/libata-sff.c:1017 ata_sff_hsm_move+0x45e/0x750()

From: Christian Borntraeger
Date: Sat Jan 10 2009 - 08:04:56 EST


Am Samstag 10 Januar 2009 schrieb Alan Cox:
> > That's the typical REQUEST SENSE command with 18-byte data length.
>
> Which means something has become horribly broken in the core libata stack.
> An 18 byte inquiry would have 18 bytes as the *last* sg element. That
> would therefore not trigger the WARN_ON. Someone has passed an sg list
> that isn't properly terminated perhaps ?
>
> I wonder if the pad code broke this.

I just checked 2.6.28 + PIO32 patch. Its also broken. Whatever caused this
problem did it a while ago.

I am wondering if I am the only one seeing this problem.
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