Comment 40 for bug 453444

Thanks, Ogasawara. I'll be testing it in few minutes.

Those who for some reason do not want to install the test kernel above can just disable syslog from running on system startup. You can do this by commenting the uncommented lines in /etc/init/syslog.conf.
Note that it will prevent syslog from flooding the log files and dd from consuming the CPU, but valuable messages could not be logged. This is in no way a fix, just a workaround to wait for the next official kernel patch, and you should uncomment the lines you commented when the patch is out.