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From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
To: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>,
	Vladislav Bolkhovitin <vst@vlnb.net>,
	linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	OpenIB <general@lists.openfabrics.org>
Subject: [ofa-general] Re: sg_reset can trigger a NULL pointer dereference in the SRP initiator
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 10:41:03 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ada1vnohmc0.fsf@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A7A949B.60408@panasas.com> (Boaz Harrosh's message of "Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:30:19 +0300")


 > Specifically scmnd->host_scribble can just be Zero.

I see at last, thanks!

The issue is that SRP is using host_scribble to hold an index, and index
0 is valid for us.

I guess the fix is a bit complex, but basically we should use
host_scribble to point to the request, and if we don't find a request in
reset_device we should allocate one.

It's a bit unfortunate that the SCSI midlayer bypasses queueing for the
device reset command because it means we may not have a slot in our
queue for the reset request etc but I suppose that's even more involved
to fix.

 - R.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-08-06 17:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-06  7:39 sg_reset can trigger a NULL pointer dereference in the SRP initiator Bart Van Assche
2009-08-06  8:30 ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-08-06 15:38   ` [ofa-general] " Bart Van Assche
2009-08-06 15:43     ` James Bottomley
2009-08-06 17:41   ` Roland Dreier [this message]
2009-08-07  8:31     ` Bart Van Assche
2009-08-07 21:14       ` Roland Dreier

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