Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 5003] New: Problem with symbios driver on recent -mm trees

[James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>]

On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 07:59 -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> Dear novice test examiner,
> 
> It's in http://test.kernel.org with everything else ;-)
> 2.6.13-rc4-mm1+jejb_fix ... drills down to:
> 
> http://test.kernel.org/10080/debug/console.log

Well, OK, apparently some novice coder made an error converting from a
stack allocated buffer to a kmalloc'd one in the sense handling
routines.

I think this patch should fix it (or at least restore it to the level of
bugginess it had before).

James

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
--- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
@@ -342,12 +342,12 @@ int scsi_execute_req(struct scsi_device 
 		sense = kmalloc(SCSI_SENSE_BUFFERSIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!sense)
 			return DRIVER_ERROR << 24;
-		memset(sense, 0, sizeof(*sense));
+		memset(sense, 0, SCSI_SENSE_BUFFERSIZE);
 	}
 	result = scsi_execute(sdev, cmd, data_direction, buffer, bufflen,
 				  sense, timeout, retries, 0);
 	if (sshdr)
-		scsi_normalize_sense(sense, sizeof(*sense), sshdr);
+		scsi_normalize_sense(sense, SCSI_SENSE_BUFFERSIZE, sshdr);
 
 	kfree(sense);
 	return result;