[hardy] SRU reguest for LP#199934

Stefan Bader stefan.bader at canonical.com
Mon Aug 18 13:46:41 UTC 2008


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Tim Gardner wrote:
> Stefan Bader wrote:
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-meta/+bug/199934
>>
>> SRU justification:
>>
>> Impact: There are changes in the stable 2.6.24 tree that avoid problems with
>> the gdth SCSI driver. Without these changes, the kernel will panic on reboot or
>> when issuing certain control commands (see bug report)
>>
>> Fix: The fix to this problem has been included in the 2.6.24.y stable tree but
>> still has one problem (WARN_ON) mentionen. There is a second quite straight
>> forward patch upstream that will address this issue.
>>
>> Testcase: See bug report.
>>
> 
> ACK - its a stable tree backport, shouldn't be much of an issue. It also
> appears to fix the problem as stated in the LP report.
> 
There is one part which is not in the stable tree, yet. That is the part that
moves the spinlock. But I found that simple and obvious enough (and it is part
of upstream).

Stefan

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