Comment 4 for bug 83716

I will post the information that you requested later. I am surprised, though that the information I provided was not sufficient. The link which I provided (http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/16/299) contains both the LKML discussion of the bug and the patch required to fix it. I have checked the Edgy kernel sources, and the patch clearly applies to them (there are no Ubuntu-specific changes to the affected function against vanilla 2.6.18, from whence the function was backported).