From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Patrick Mansfield <patmans@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com>,
SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Using scsi_cmd->request->nr_hw_segments within a LLDD...
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 17:02:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040922150255.GK2375@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040922150120.GA14069@beaverton.ibm.com>
On Wed, Sep 22 2004, Patrick Mansfield wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 08:57:27AM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 21 2004, Andrew Vasquez wrote:
>
> > Would this by any chance be from request initiated with SG_IO? This
> > problem should be fixed in 2.6.9-rcX, are you still seeing it?
> >
> > ->nr_hw_segments was not initialized for some paths earlier, so it
> > contained random crap.
>
> Jens,
>
> What code change is it? I thought it was already in 2.6.8.
Yes it was already in 2.6.8, I just wasn't sure. It's the
bio_copy_user() stuff that replaces the kmalloc() approach for unaligned
user data.
--
Jens Axboe
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-22 15:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-21 21:55 Using scsi_cmd->request->nr_hw_segments within a LLDD Andrew Vasquez
2004-09-22 6:57 ` Jens Axboe
2004-09-22 15:01 ` Patrick Mansfield
2004-09-22 15:02 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
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