Subject: Re: lack of pciide transfer alignment checking causes crash
To: Erik E. Fair <fair@netbsd.org>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/30/2005 08:04:29
On Jun 30, 2005, at 1:21 AM, Erik E. Fair wrote:
> Jason,
> I know there is disagreement about the proper ultimate
> resolution of
> this problem, but I also think that the code you wrote should be
> committed as
> a first approximation of a fix that we can improve upon later.
> Right now, a
> userland program doing physio on any buffer boundary other than 16-
> byte aligned
> on the affected system causes an instant system crash (no panic,
> just system
> go bye-bye).
Did you test the patch I sent?
>
> Erik <fair@netbsd.org>
>
-- thorpej