Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753353AbYJDKVu (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Oct 2008 06:21:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752274AbYJDKVm (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Oct 2008 06:21:42 -0400 Received: from styx.suse.cz ([82.119.242.94]:40505 "EHLO mail.suse.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752214AbYJDKVl (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Oct 2008 06:21:41 -0400 Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2008 12:21:39 +0200 (CEST) From: Jiri Kosina To: Jesse Brandeburg cc: Jesse Barnes , David Miller , jesse.brandeburg@intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-netdev@vger.kernel.org, kkeil@suse.de, agospoda@redhat.com, arjan@linux.intel.com, david.graham@intel.com, bruce.w.allan@intel.com, john.ronciak@intel.com, Thomas Gleixner , chris.jones@canonical.com, tim.gardner@intel.com, airlied@gmail.com, Olaf Kirch , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 02/12] On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, David Miller wrote: In-Reply-To: <4807377b0810031628x43f79eferdbb9c9c264a5816e@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <20080930030825.22950.18891.stgit@jbrandeb-bw.jf.intel.com> <200810021523.45884.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> <20081003.134634.240211201.davem@davemloft.net> <200810031429.22598.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> <4807377b0810031628x43f79eferdbb9c9c264a5816e@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LNX 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 791 Lines: 22 On Fri, 3 Oct 2008, Jesse Brandeburg wrote: > Our experience is different. We are also testing with the "protection > patch" reverted. > We see that the problem specifically comes and goes when > removing/adding the use of set_memory_ro/set_memory_rw to the driver. But if this patch (which is an obvious workaround, compared to the other patches which fix real bugs, right?) would be catching some malicious accessess to the mapped EEPROM, there should be stacktraces present in the kernel log, right? Thanks, -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/