Re: [PATCH] 2.6.21 fix lba48 bug in libata fill_result_tf()

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Tejun Heo wrote:
Mark Lord wrote:
Mark Lord wrote:
This patch corrects fill_result_tf() so that the flags
get copied to result_tf before they are used by tf_read().

Signed-off-by:  Mark Lord <mlord@xxxxxxxxx>
---
--- linux/drivers/ata/libata-core.c.orig    2007-03-21
12:46:06.000000000 -0400
+++ linux/drivers/ata/libata-core.c    2007-04-02 16:16:28.000000000
-0400
@@ -4763,8 +4763,8 @@
{
    struct ata_port *ap = qc->ap;

-    ap->ops->tf_read(ap, &qc->result_tf);
    qc->result_tf.flags = qc->tf.flags;
+    ap->ops->tf_read(ap, &qc->result_tf);
}

/**

If I understand this correctly, the impact of (not patching) this
is that error-handling for LBA48 accesses is broken.  Right, Tejun?

Yes, you're right.  Thanks for fixing this.

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@xxxxxxxxx>

This should really go into 2.6.21, as well as be backported
to the 2.6.20.xx point releases.

Where's Jeff?

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