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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
To: Jody McIntyre <scjody@modernduck.com>
Cc: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>,
	linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>,
	Andrew de Quincey <adq@lidskialf.net>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sbp2: better check of transfer direction (protects from panic or oops)
Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 17:26:36 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1134167196.3491.2.camel@mulgrave> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051209193423.GB19441@conscoop.ottawa.on.ca>

On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 14:34 -0500, Jody McIntyre wrote:
> I realize that.. The question is "should we rely on the SCSI subsystem
> to set a valid direction, or should we be checking it ourselves?"

You should rely on the SCSI subsystem.  If everyone has their own work
around, a) we get bloated drivers and b) the original bug is never
fixed.

James




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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-12-09 22:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200512082144.jB8Li6Ul022982@einhorn.in-berlin.de>
     [not found] ` <20051209171922.GW19441@conscoop.ottawa.on.ca>
2005-12-09 19:01   ` [PATCH] sbp2: better check of transfer direction (protects from panic or oops) Stefan Richter
2005-12-09 19:34     ` Jody McIntyre
2005-12-09 20:51       ` Stefan Richter
2005-12-09 22:26       ` James Bottomley [this message]
2005-12-10 14:05     ` Stefan Richter
2005-12-10 18:21       ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-12-10 21:46       ` Douglas Gilbert
2005-12-10 23:13         ` Christoph Hellwig

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