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From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
To: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
	John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
	"James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@linux.ibm.com>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: Let scsi_execute_cmd() mark args->sshdr as invalid
Date: Mon, 22 May 2023 18:26:06 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yq1pm6sm34j.fsf@ca-mkp.ca.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <73fd2741-3730-ca1d-7e23-0bf9cf10f423@suse.com> (Juergen Gross's message of "Sun, 21 May 2023 07:23:56 +0200")


Juergen,

> sshdr is output only data, so setting it before returning seems to be a
> sensible thing to do.

I would love to rototill all this and make sense make sense (!) but
that's a major undertaking. Until then we need to validate that callers
check the return value before they start poking at the sense data. Even
if things were zeroed ahead of time, other things could have gone wrong
that would affect how an error condition should be handled.

> Letting the callers do that is kind of a layering violation IMHO,

scsi_execute_cmd() is one big layering violation, I'm afraid.

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering

  reply	other threads:[~2023-05-22 22:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-05-11 12:34 [PATCH] scsi: Let scsi_execute_cmd() mark args->sshdr as invalid Juergen Gross
2023-05-11 12:49 ` Bart Van Assche
2023-05-11 12:54   ` Juergen Gross
2023-05-11 13:10 ` Martin Wilck
2023-05-11 13:17   ` Juergen Gross
2023-05-11 13:23     ` Martin Wilck
2023-05-11 13:32       ` Juergen Gross
2023-05-11 15:59         ` Martin Wilck
2023-05-11 16:00 ` Martin Wilck
2023-05-17  2:06 ` Martin K. Petersen
2023-05-17  4:54   ` Juergen Gross
2023-05-17 15:05     ` John Garry
2023-05-18  4:53       ` Juergen Gross
2023-05-18 10:57         ` John Garry
2023-05-18 19:54           ` Bart Van Assche
2023-05-19 16:06             ` John Garry
2023-05-19 16:54               ` Bart Van Assche
2023-05-19 17:12                 ` John Garry
2023-05-19 17:39                   ` Bart Van Assche
2023-05-22  9:55                     ` John Garry
2023-05-22 13:31                       ` Bart Van Assche
2023-05-22 15:54                         ` John Garry
2023-05-22 22:48                           ` michael.christie
2023-05-21  1:19           ` Martin K. Petersen
2023-05-21  5:23             ` Juergen Gross
2023-05-22 22:26               ` Martin K. Petersen [this message]
2023-05-23 15:04             ` Mike Christie
2023-05-21  0:46     ` Martin K. Petersen

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