On AVERATEC 3200, pata_via causes memory corruption with ATAPI DMA, which often leads to random kernel oops. The cause of the problem is not well understood yet and only small subset of machines using the controller seem affected. Blacklist ATAPI DMA on the machine. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11426 Reported-and-tested-by: Jim Bray <jimsantelmo@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx --- drivers/ata/pata_via.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/ata/pata_via.c b/drivers/ata/pata_via.c index 65e4be6..8e9f504 100644 --- a/drivers/ata/pata_via.c +++ b/drivers/ata/pata_via.c @@ -124,6 +124,17 @@ static const struct via_isa_bridge { { NULL } }; +static const struct dmi_system_id no_atapi_dma_dmi_table[] = { + { + .ident = "AVERATEC 3200", + .matches = { + DMI_MATCH(DMI_BOARD_VENDOR, "AVERATEC"), + DMI_MATCH(DMI_BOARD_NAME, "3200"), + }, + }, + { } +}; + struct via_port { u8 cached_device; }; @@ -355,6 +366,13 @@ static unsigned long via_mode_filter(struct ata_device *dev, unsigned long mask) mask &= ~ ATA_MASK_UDMA; } } + + if (dev->class == ATA_DEV_ATAPI && + dmi_check_system(no_atapi_dma_dmi_table)) { + ata_dev_warn(dev, "controller locks up on ATAPI DMA, forcing PIO\n"); + mask &= ATA_MASK_PIO; + } + return mask; } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
