Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 03 Oct 2007 19:42:15 +0100 | From | Neil Romig <> | Subject | Re: File corruption when using kernels 2.6.18+ |
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Pekka Enberg wrote: > Hi Neil, > > On 10/3/07, Neil Romig <neil@romig.demon.co.uk> wrote: >> Thanks for your help on this. I have narrowed it down to commit >> "c22ce143d15eb288543fe9873e1c5ac1c01b69a1 x86: cache pollution aware >> __copy_from_user_ll()". This fits with the errors I'm getting, so now I need >> to find out if I can safely ignore this patch, or does it have to be modified? >> This is my first Linux bug in many years of simply using it, so I'm a little >> nervous! > > Just to make sure, if you disable CONFIG_X86_INTEL_USERCOPY, the > corruption goes away? > It took some fiddling to disable (edit arch/i386/Kconfig.cpu) but that has fixed it. Many thanks!
Does this need to be reported as a bug? Or should the kernel config scripts be changed to enable this option to be easily turned off?
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