From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
To: Calvin Owens <calvinowens@fb.com>
Cc: Sathya Prakash <sathya.prakash@broadcom.com>,
Chaitra P B <chaitra.basappa@broadcom.com>,
Suganath Prabu Subramani <suganath-prabu.subramani@broadcom.com>,
"James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
MPT-FusionLinux.pdl@broadcom.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@fb.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mpt3sas: Ensure the connector_name string is NUL-terminated
Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2016 21:35:21 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yq1vazgvvza.fsf@sermon.lab.mkp.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8b53a29b3ec90c9a7030e8fa3e1555ad5802dce9.1469680625.git.calvinowens@fb.com> (Calvin Owens's message of "Wed, 27 Jul 2016 21:45:51 -0700")
>>>>> "Calvin" == Calvin Owens <calvinowens@fb.com> writes:
Calvin> We blindly trust the hardware to give us NUL-terminated strings,
Calvin> which is a bad idea because it doesn't always do that. For
Calvin> example:
Broadcom folks, please respond to this and other mpt3sas patches in the
queue:
https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-scsi/list/?q=mpt3sas
--
Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-05 1:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-28 4:45 [PATCH] mpt3sas: Ensure the connector_name string is NUL-terminated Calvin Owens
2016-08-05 1:35 ` Martin K. Petersen [this message]
2016-08-05 6:48 ` Chaitra Basappa
2016-08-09 1:10 ` Martin K. Petersen
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