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From: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
To: Fuerst Lars <lars.fuerst@thomson.net>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	open-osd mailing-list <osd-dev@open-osd.org>
Subject: Re: [osd-dev] [PATCH version 2] libosd: Fix NULL dereference BUG when target is not OSD conformant
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:18:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <499967A0.80908@panasas.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <498F020E.808@panasas.com>

Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> Very old OSC's Target had a BUG in the Get/Set attributes where
> it was looking in the wrong places for attribute lists length.
> If used with the open-osd initiator, the initiator would dereference
> a NULL pointer when retrieving system_information attributes.
> 
> Checks are added that retrieval of each attribute is successful
> before accessing its value.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Tested-by: Fuerst Lars <lars.fuerst@thomson.net>

James please submit this patch on top of current scsi-misc for a fix of a serious
BUG. It should be submitted together with the osd patches for 2.6.30.

Thanks in advance
Boaz

      reply	other threads:[~2009-02-16 13:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-08 14:03 [PATCH] libosd: Fix NULL dereference BUG when target is none OSD conformant Boaz Harrosh
2009-02-08 14:09 ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-02-08 16:00   ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-02-08 16:02 ` [PATCH version 2] libosd: Fix NULL dereference BUG when target is not " Boaz Harrosh
2009-02-16 13:18   ` Boaz Harrosh [this message]

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