Bug 533798

Summary: [Cisco/LSI 4.8.z bug] mptctl module dereferences a userspace address, triggering a crash [rhel-4.8.z]
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: RHEL Program Management <pm-rhel>
Component: kernelAssignee: Vitaly Mayatskikh <vmayatsk>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Red Hat Kernel QE team <kernel-qe>
Severity: urgent Docs Contact:
Priority: urgent    
Version: 4.8CC: abdulkh, abjoglek, andriusb, bdonahue, coughlan, dhoward, djeffery, emcnabb, gcase, james.brown, kashyap.desai, pm-eus, sathya.prakash, savbu-lnx-drivers, scofeldm, tao
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: OtherQA, ZStream
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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A bug in the mptctl_do_mpt_command() function in the mpt driver may have resulted in crashes during boot on i386 systems with certain adapters using the mpt driver, and also running the hugemem kernel.
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Bug Depends On: 528066    
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Description RHEL Program Management 2009-11-09 09:16:00 UTC
This bug has been copied from bug #528066 and has been proposed
to be backported to 4.8 z-stream (EUS).

Comment 6 Vitaly Mayatskikh 2009-11-30 21:33:00 UTC
Committed in 89.0.18

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2009-12-15 17:18:52 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1671.html

Comment 11 Douglas Silas 2011-01-30 22:43:22 UTC
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A bug in the mptctl_do_mpt_command() function in the mpt driver may have resulted in crashes during boot on i386 systems with certain adapters using the mpt driver, and also running the hugemem kernel.