Re: Off-by-one in both LIBATA and IDE drivers

From: Norman Diamond
Date: Tue Mar 10 2009 - 23:28:24 EST


Jim Paris wrote:
> Norman Diamond wrote:
>>
>> It looks like both LIBATA and the old IDE drivers
>> have an off-by-one error in deciding whether to use
>> READ SECTOR(S) instead of READ SECTOR(S) EXT.
>
> This was fixed here:
>
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=97b697a11b07e2ebfa69c488132596cc5eb24119

Thank you.

I will see if I can port that fix to 2.6.24.3, because
Slax 6.0.3 and kernel 2.6.24.3 avoided some other bugs of
later kernels.


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