Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 12:31:02 +0200 (MEST) From: Hubert Mantel <mantel@suse.de> To: Ulrich Windl <ulrich.windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de> Cc: Doug Ledford <dledford@dialnet.net>, aic7xxx@freebsd.org, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu, Harald Koenig <koenig@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de> Subject: Re: "read defect list" with 2.0.30-pre7 and patch Aug19 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970821122755.32649Y-100000@Galois.fs100.suse.de> In-Reply-To: <5CA15F646FE@rkdvmks1.ngate.uni-regensburg.de>
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Hi,
On Thu, 21 Aug 1997, Ulrich Windl wrote:
> Having enabled the statistics, I found out that I have statistics for
> non-existing SCSI IDs and LUNs -- maybe the read was there, but not the
[...]
> Still, as expected earlier, there seems to be a undetected buffer
> overflow in the kernel that overwrites some SCSI data structures (at
> least). The code of the fault looked OK, but the RAM accesses had
> probably bad values.
If I remember correctly there has been a bug report about statistics can
result in a buffer overflow for multiple LUNs. I didn't check if the fix
for this has gone into pre-7 yet.
Hubert mantel@suse.de
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