Re: [PATCH] scsi disk: Use its own buffer for the vpd request

[Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>]

On 31 Aug 2013, Greg KH said:
> On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 11:01:56AM +0100, Nix wrote:
>> On 1 Aug 2013, Bernd Schubert said:
>> 
>> > Once I noticed that scsi_get_vpd_page() works fine from other function
>> > calls and that it is not 0x89, but already 0x0 that fails fixing it became
>> > easy.
>> >
>> > Nix, any chance you could verify it also works for you?
>> 
>> As an aside, this commit does indeed fix the bug I reported, but it
>> doesn't seem to have gone anywhere, not even into -stable.
>> 
>> Is it held up somehow?
>> 
>> (stable has
>> 
>> commit 0ac10bd036f0f3b8ce7ac2390446eab9531c72eb
>> Author: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
>> Date:   Tue Jul 30 22:58:34 2013 -0400
>> 
>>     SCSI: Don't attempt to send extended INQUIRY command if skip_vpd_pages is set
>> 
>> which IIRC was eventually found not to be necessary, because this fix
>> works fine instead?)
>> 
>> Possibly I'm misremembering the order of month-old events and Martin's
>> fix was eventually considered better... in which case, sorry for the noise.
>
> Is that other patch even needed anymore, now that Martin's patch is in
> the tree?

My understanding is that this patch is rather better, since Martin's
patch prevents sending of the extended INQUIRY command at all: this one
just uses a reduced buffer size, but can still issue the command. (But I
may be misunderstanding everything.)

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