[hardy] SRU reguest for LP#199934

[Stefan Bader]

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Stefan Bader wrote:
> 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
> 
No forget what I said. I assumed the spinlock patch must not be in since it was
referenced in the fix and after that there wasn't anything. But in fact that
one comes before the other. I suspect thy might have been done independently.
So both parts are in stable.

Stefan
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