From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Martin K. Petersen" Subject: Re: [PATCH] mpt3sas: Ensure the connector_name string is NUL-terminated Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2016 21:35:21 -0400 Message-ID: References: <8b53a29b3ec90c9a7030e8fa3e1555ad5802dce9.1469680625.git.calvinowens@fb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:26894 "EHLO userp1040.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759329AbcHEBgz (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Aug 2016 21:36:55 -0400 In-Reply-To: <8b53a29b3ec90c9a7030e8fa3e1555ad5802dce9.1469680625.git.calvinowens@fb.com> (Calvin Owens's message of "Wed, 27 Jul 2016 21:45:51 -0700") Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Calvin Owens Cc: Sathya Prakash , Chaitra P B , Suganath Prabu Subramani , "James E.J. Bottomley" , "Martin K. Petersen" , MPT-FusionLinux.pdl@broadcom.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@fb.com >>>>> "Calvin" == Calvin Owens 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