On 6/03/2012 1:52 AM, John Robinson wrote:
On 05/03/2012 13:03, Steven Haigh wrote:I've noticed that recently I've managed to get a ton of messages like this at boot: mdadm: sending ioctl 1261 to a partition! mdadm: sending ioctl 800c0910 to a partition!It's probably harmless. http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2012/01/msg01105.html says "This warning was introduced as part of the fix for CVE-2011-4127" https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=783955#c4 says "Actually, the warning seems a false positive to me"
I did see these - and I probably should have mentioned it in the original post. Naughty me for posting at times I should really be asleep.
The general jist of it seemed to be "it always failed before, now we just know about it". What makes me wonder is that if it always failed before, why do we do it in the first place?
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