On Wednesday 13 December 2006 20:05, Christian Praehauser wrote: > Hello! > > Ang Way Chuang wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I am resending this email because the last email bounced back due to > > the large attachment. Now the attachment has been trimmed down. > > > > CRC-32 checking during ULE decapsulation always failed on x86_64 system > > due to the size of a variable used to store CRC? Discovered this bug on > > Fedora Core 6 with kernel-2.6.18-1.2849. The i686 counterpart has no such > > problem. Attached is the output of dmesg showing the problem. Look for > > the last few lines for indication. This patch has been tested on 64-bit > > system as well as 32-bit system. Guess this bug should affect 2.6.19 as > > well since dvb_net.c hasn't changed. Other kernel versions may be > > affected too. I am not sure why there is extra 0xff... for > > Because it is initialized with the expression ~0. If it were 0xFFFFFFFF, > things would work fine. > > > 64 bit unsigned long (I know it is 64 bit wide in 64-bit system) :-D. If > > this patch is relevant, should I send a similar patch to Adrian Bunk for > > his 2.6.16.x tree? I haven't tested 2.6.16.x on my 64 bit system. Thanks > > in advance > > In my opinion, this patch should be included into the Linux-DVB kernel tree > ASAP. I think Mauro would do that. Did you also send your patch to A. > Morton (the Linux 2.6 kernel maintainer)? No, I didn't. I have sent it to stable@xxxxxxxxxxx Chris Wright is fine with the patch. He asked me to push it to upstream and then send it to stable@xxxxxxxxxx again. I assume what he meant sending it to linuxtv mailing list. I shall send it to Andrew Morton directly then? > > Cheers, > Christian. _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
