Bug#701705: linux-image-amd64: sas2ircu vendor supplied binary SAS2008 configuration utility segfaults on some hardware
Package: linux-image-amd64
Version: 2.6.32+29
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
With certain types of hardare (such as the Dell PowerEdge C5220 configured with the LSI SAS2008 disk controller) the command 'sas2icru 0 display' consistently segfaults when running the latest
released Debian Squeeze kernel. The sas2ircu tool is a binary tool provided by the hardware
vendor, which makes tracking down the error a bit tricky.
We have, however, identified 5 line patch in Linus' upstream tree that applies cleanly to
the stable debian kernel tree that resolves this issue for us. The commit ID of this change is
ebda4d38df542e1ff4747c4daadfc7da250b4fa6
We have been running a few hundred systems for a few months with this patch applied and have
observed no regressions.
Additional details about this issue and how we found the change can be found at
http://labs.spotify.com/2013/01/28/finding-the-right-needle-in-the-kernel-haystack/
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.7
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (400, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5.spotify5.1352737771-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages linux-image-amd64 depends on:
ii linux-imag 2.6.32-45+spotify4.1342627331 Linux 2.6.32 for 64-bit PCs
linux-image-amd64 recommends no packages.
linux-image-amd64 suggests no packages.
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