422891 – sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.4.* is affected by Linux mass storage regression.

Bug 422891 - sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.4.* is affected by Linux mass storage regression.

Summary: sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.4.* is affected by Linux mass storage regression.

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Kernel Bug Wranglers and Kernel Maintainers

URL:	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug....
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Reported:	2012-06-21 19:04 UTC by dE
Modified:	2012-07-17 15:38 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description dE 2012-06-21 19:04:37 UTC

It happens that when you insert a pendrive (I think >=8GB), the kernel reports it's size to be 15 EiB, as a result fdisk, parted and dd fail.

There has emerged a patch -- 

http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.usb.general/65976

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Mike Pagano gentoo-dev

2012-07-17 15:38:30 UTC

This is is linux patch 3.4.5 which is available in both vanilla and gentoo-sources flavors.


http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=6a0bdffa0073857870a4ed1b4489762146359eb4