Bug#578398: megasas: Failed to copy out to user sense data

[Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it@gmail.com>]

Package: linux-2.6
Version: 2.6.32-9
Severity: normal


The kernel 2.6.32 is affected by the following bug:

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15001

The issue is caused by a 32 bit application (omreport - from Dell Open
Manage suite) with a 64 bit OS.
The fix is already available upstream, with this commit:

commit b3dc1a212e5167984616445990c76056034f8eeb
Author: Tomas Henzl <thenzl@redhat.com>
Date:   Thu Feb 11 18:01:50 2010 +0100

    [SCSI] megaraid_sas: fix for 32bit apps

Is it possible to backport the patch to Debian kernel?


-- Package-specific info:
** Kernel log: boot messages should be attached

** Model information
sys_vendor: Dell Inc.
product_name: PowerEdge 2900
product_version: 
chassis_vendor: Dell Inc.
chassis_version: 
bios_vendor: Dell Inc.
bios_version: 2.5.0
board_vendor: Dell Inc.
board_name: 0YM158
board_version: A02

** PCI devices:
[cut - not really relevant]

02:0e.0 RAID bus controller [0104]: Dell PowerEdge Expandable RAID controller 5 [1028:0015]
	Subsystem: Dell PERC 5/i Integrated RAID Controller [1028:1f03]
	Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr+ Stepping+ SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
	Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
	Latency: 32 (32000ns min), Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
	Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 142
	Region 0: Memory at d80f0000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64K]
	Region 2: Memory at fc7c0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
	Expansion ROM at fc600000 [disabled] [size=32K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: megaraid_sas
	Kernel modules: megaraid_sas

** USB devices:
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0624:0294 Avocent Corp. 
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 04b4:6560 Cypress Semiconductor Corp. CY7C65640 USB-2.0 "TetraHub"
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.4
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.32-3-amd64 depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.24     Debian configuration management sy
ii  initramfs-tools [linux-initra 0.92o      tools for generating an initramfs
ii  module-init-tools             3.4-1      tools for managing Linux kernel mo

Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.32-3-amd64 recommends:
ii  firmware-linux-free           2.6.32-10  Binary firmware for various driver

Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.32-3-amd64 suggests:
ii  grub                       0.97-47lenny2 GRand Unified Bootloader (Legacy v
pn  linux-doc-2.6.32           <none>        (no description available)

Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.32-3-amd64 is related to:
ii  firmware-bnx2                 0.23       Binary firmware for Broadcom NetXt
pn  firmware-bnx2x                <none>     (no description available)
pn  firmware-ipw2x00              <none>     (no description available)
pn  firmware-ivtv                 <none>     (no description available)
pn  firmware-iwlwifi              <none>     (no description available)
pn  firmware-linux                <none>     (no description available)
ii  firmware-linux-nonfree        0.23       Binary firmware for various driver
pn  firmware-qlogic               <none>     (no description available)
pn  firmware-ralink               <none>     (no description available)

-- debconf information excluded