Re: [stable] [PATCH 1/2] sd: fix memory corruption by sd_read_cache_type

James Bottomley
2006-02-26T05:15:31Z

On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 16:01 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Perhaps equally importantly, let's get them into mainline if they are so
> important. Which means that I want sign-offs and acks from the appropriate
> people (scsi and original author, which is apparently Al).

Yes, I've been thinking about this. The problem is that it's a change
to sd and a change to scsi_lib in a fairly critical routine. While I'm
reasonably certain the change is safe, I'd prefer to make sure by
incubating in -mm for a while.

The title, by the way, is misleading; it's not a memory corruption in sd
at all really. It's the initio bridge which produces a totally
standards non conformant return to a mode sense which produces the
problem. And so, it's only the single initio bridge which is currently
affected; hence the caution.

James