Package: linux-2.6.18-6-amd64 Severity: critical Tags: patch Justification: causes serious data loss
How to reproduce: 10036:/tmp# uname -a Linux 10036 2.6.18-6-amd64 #1 SMP Wed Jan 23 06:27:23 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux 10036:/tmp# grep MemTotal /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 8179992 kB 10036:/tmp# dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1048576 count=10240 | tee testfile | md5sum 00a513dc3da637c4c86557102b0e6098 - 10239+1 records in 10239+1 records out 10737297534 bytes (11 GB) copied, 1584.6 seconds, 6.8 MB/s 10036:/tmp# md5sum testfile bfceb91a358dfc3d09e22ad74b7ebefb testfile 10036:/tmp# How to fix: There is a 3ware KB article on this: http://www.3ware.com/KB/article.aspx?id=15243 This includes "3ware Storage Controller device driver for Linux v1.26.03.000-2.6.18." >From the driver: 1.26.03.000 - Use default DMA data direction to prevent data corruption when using SWIOTLB with 4GB+ on EM64T. Installing this fixes the problem for me. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-vserver-k7 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
