From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 20:54:13 +0200 (CEST)
> Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11382 > Subject : e1000e: 2.6.27-rc1 corrupts EEPROM/NVM > Submitter : David Vrabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date : 2008-08-08 10:47 (45 days old) > References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121819267211679&w=4 > Handled-By : Christopher Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fixed by: commit 78566fecbb12a7616ae9a88b2ffbc8062c4a89e3 Author: Christopher Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri Sep 5 14:04:05 2008 -0700 e1000: prevent corruption of EEPROM/NVM Andrey reports e1000 corruption, and that a patch in vmware's ESX fixed it. The EEPROM corruption is triggered by concurrent access of the EEPROM read/write. Putting a lock around it solve the problem. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: use DEFINE_SPINLOCK to avoid confusing lockdep] Signed-off-by: Christopher Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reported-by: Andrey Borzenkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Zach Amsden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Pratap Subrahmanyam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Jeff Kirsher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Jesse Brandeburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Bruce Allan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: PJ Waskiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: John Ronciak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-testers" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
