David Moore wrote:
[...]
> considering the severity of this one-liner bug, I would like to
> request that this simplified patch make it into 2.6.20, despite how
> close we are to the final cut.
So we were too close. Maybe the -stable team likes to have it in 2.6.20.1.
> It fixes real crashes:
> http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-bugs/2006-12/msg02943.html
> http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=28224
> http://www.pchdtv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2063&sid=a959a14a4c2db0eebaab7b0df56103ce
and FireWire crashes too.
> --- linux-2.6.19.x86_64/lib/swiotlb.c.orig 2007-02-04 13:18:41.000000000 -0500
> +++ linux-2.6.19.x86_64/lib/swiotlb.c 2007-02-04 13:19:43.000000000 -0500
> @@ -750,7 +750,7 @@ swiotlb_sync_sg(struct device *hwdev, st
>
> for (i = 0; i < nelems; i++, sg++)
> if (sg->dma_address != SG_ENT_PHYS_ADDRESS(sg))
> - sync_single(hwdev, (void *) sg->dma_address,
> + sync_single(hwdev, phys_to_virt(sg->dma_address),
> sg->dma_length, dir, target);
> }
>
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Stefan Richter
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