From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: jejb@steeleye.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix up request buffer reference in various scsi drivers
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 07:37:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44880BEA.90707@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060603112113.GA17018@lst.de>
Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Various scsi drivers use scsi_cmnd.buffer and scsi_cmnd.bufflen in their
> queuecommand functions. Those fields are internal storage for the
> midlayer only and are used to restore the original payload after
> request_buffer and request_bufflen have been overwritten for EH. Using
> the buffer and bufflen fields means they do very broken things in error
> handling.
False statement, for libata.
Please CC the author (me) or linux-ide, at least, when you touch libata.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-08 11:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-03 11:21 [PATCH] fix up request buffer reference in various scsi drivers Christoph Hellwig
2006-06-08 11:37 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2006-06-08 13:01 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-06-08 13:06 ` James Bottomley
2006-06-08 13:26 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-08 13:54 ` James Bottomley
2006-06-08 14:17 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-08 14:35 ` James Bottomley
2006-06-08 14:44 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-08 17:40 ` James Bottomley
2006-06-08 17:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
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