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Date:      Mon, 7 Feb 2005 19:51:33 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Scott Long <scottl@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/twe twe.c twe_freebsd.c
Message-ID:  <20050208035133.GA32524@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <200502080343.j183h2Nt041950@repoman.freebsd.org>
References:  <200502080343.j183h2Nt041950@repoman.freebsd.org>

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On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 03:43:02AM +0000, Scott Long wrote:
> scottl      2005-02-08 03:43:02 UTC
>=20
>   FreeBSD src repository
>=20
>   Modified files:
>     sys/dev/twe          twe.c twe_freebsd.c=20
>   Log:
>   Fix crashdumps on twe.  The twe_immediate_request() path was not only
>   copying data to a temporary buffer before the I/O, but also copying that
>   temporary buffer back to the original data location after the I/O.  When
>   you're dumping kernel heap and stack and protected pages, this is very
>   very bad.
>  =20
>   A belated thanks to Robert Watson for donating hardware for this (and f=
uture)
>   work.

Awesome!

Kris

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