Re: [BUG] scsi: hpsa: how to destroy your files

[Jesse Barnes]

 On Thu, 1 Sep 2011 15:03:49 -0500
scameron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 12:59:38PM -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> > On Thu, 01 Sep 2011 11:50:38 -0700
> > James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thu, 2011-09-01 at 10:58 -0700, Roland Dreier wrote:
> > > > > OK I found the bad commit,I got lucky... I lost some files but my
> > > > > machine was able to complete the bisection. CC involved people
> > > > 
> > > > > # bad: [b03e7495a862b028294f59fc87286d6d78ee7fa1] PCI: Set PCI-E Max Payload Size on fabric
> > > > 
> > > > Hi Eric,
> > > > 
> > > > I guess it would be useful to see "lspci -vv" output with a "good" kernel
> > > > and with that bad patch applied.  Most likely we should see some difference
> > > > somewhere in the MaxPayload fields in the PCI Express capability of
> > > > some device.
> > > > 
> > > > Either the RAID controller or something else lies, and puts a value
> > > > in the DevCap that it can't actually support, or else the patch is
> > > > buggy and puts something out of range in a DevCtl somewhere.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > While we investigate, I think the problems produced by the patch (data
> > > corruption) are serious enough to warrant reverting it, please Jesse.
> > 
> > Hm I haven't been paying attention to the compromise thread; how should
> > I share these changes?  Is master.kernel.org down indefinitely?  Is
> > there a new server at kernel.org I can use?
> 
> I can't answer that question, but I would like a copy of your revert
> patch(es) to test (as a simple patch --reverse of the original commit on the 3.1-rc4
> tree didn't go in cleanly).

Attached is the series.  Applies on top of my for-linus branch.

-- 
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center