From: alexmcwhirter@xxxxxxxxxx Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2016 19:02:40 -0400 > On 2016-07-27 14:04, alexmcwhirter@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: >> Just to add some more information to this, the corruption seems to >> effect ssh as well. >> Using a sun hme interface, occasionally upon an ssh connection it will >> refuse to authenticate a client with either password or cert >> authentication. Using wireshark to capture and decrypt the packets >> between the two machines, the data coming from the server seems good, >> but the data received by the server from the client is essentially >> garbage. Note that the client is sending valid data, but the server is >> corrupting it upon receipt. Closing the connection and starting a new >> one will remedy the login issue, but you do occasionally see >> corruption on the server side sporadically. >> So far this only seems to occur on incoming data, outgoing data seems >> fine. > > Also, there is another patch the references this commit on sparc64 at > least. > > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9221895/ > > I highly expect both my issue and OP's issue to revolve not around > commit e5a4b0bb803b specifically, but around other code that no longer > behaves as expected because of it. Indeed, and that fault address rounding bug occurs two other times in arch/sparc/lib/user_fixup.c The mentioned patchwork patch should fix the bug and I'll get that into my sparc tree, merged, and queued up for -stable ASAP. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
