On Thu, 04 Feb 2010, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Currently the dell-laptop driver does not guarantee this, and when the > buffer address is higher than 4GB, the address is truncated to 32 bits > and the SMI handler writes to the wrong memory address. Hmm, this is a very dangerous bug, with the potential to cause page-cache/file system corruption and data loss, isn't it? What kernel versions does it affect? How easy is it to trigger? Shouldn't it go to -stable post-haste as soon as it is merged in mainline? -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
