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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
