File corruption occurs randomly on RHEL5 with Seagate IDE hard drive model ST980818AM

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Issue

Memory corruption occurs randomly on RHEL5 with Seagate IDE hard drive model ST980818AM when reading S.M.A.R.T. error log data in parallel with sequential i/o.

Environment

  • RHEL5 32bit kernel (any version).
  • Not affected: RHEL6 and upstream 3.x kernels
  • Seagate IDE hard drive model ST980818AM
  • boot with maxcpus=1

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