3.3 kernel bug

[Yioryos Asprobounitis]

--- On Tue, 4/3/12, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: 3.3 kernel bug
> To: "Yioryos Asprobounitis" <mavrothal at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "OLPC Devel" <devel at lists.laptop.org>
> Date: Tuesday, April 3, 2012, 5:04 AM
> On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 10:00 AM,
> Yioryos Asprobounitis
> <mavrothal at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> >> --- On Mon, 4/2/12, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Apr 2, 2012 7:16 PM, "Yioryos Asprobounitis"
> <mavrothal at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> It would appear that I came up an XO-1 3.3
> kernel bug (albeit not with an OLPC build yet, but the bug
> is not there with OLPC 2.6.35 or OLPC 3.1 and identical
> userspace)
> >>> Its a regression in fs/namei.c,
> full_name_hash()/hash_name(),  regarding files with 8
> character names or multiples of it
> >>> More info in this thread http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=133244187421796&w=2
> >>>
> >>> It is apparently fixed in 3.4-rc1, but I was
> wondering if it may worth merging in 3.3, which appears to
> be the next x86 OLPC kernel.
> >>>
> >>> I do not really know if it affects anything
> specific in the XO builds, so just a heads up for now.
> >>
> >>If it's a general kernel bug fix I would expect
> it'll get pulled into the 3.3 stable releases
> >>Peter
> >>
> >
> > I'm afraid did not make into the 3.3.1 stable (from
> what I can see).
> > This is also true for another bug that I came across
> (also in relation to the usb wifi XO-1 module) that brakes
> (!) the flow control when usb-debug is enabled. ( https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/2/2/427 )
> > This is also fixed in 3.4-rc1 but not present in
> 3.3.1.
> > Hopefully 3.3.2 :-)
> 
> Got a link to the exact email with the patch that fixes that
> later bug?

The one in the parenthesis above :-)

> 
> Peter
>