James Bottomley wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 18:25 -0500, Maurice Volaski wrote:
> 
>>Are you saying that MPT driver is seeing some garbage data where 
>>there should be valid data structures and that garbage data is being 
>>generated by the external hardware RAID attached to the card (the 
>>only thing attached to it).
> 
> 
> I'm not saying anything yet, because I have insufficient data to form a
> conclusion.  What I want to know is what the kernel was doing before it
> got this message.  It currently looks like the REPORT_LUNS command
> didn't return any data in even though returned status was GOOD, so it's
> probably a fault either of the device or the controller.

James,
Perhaps a bit of defensive programming would make that code
more robust. Also the resid could/should be checked as well
(and in many other cases).
[Tracking down the cause would obviously be useful as well.]

Doug Gilbert