From: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
Matthew Dharm <mdharm-usb@one-eyed-alien.net>,
Sven Schnelle <svens@stackframe.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH resend] isd200: Allocate sense_buffer for hacked up scsi_cmnd
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:05:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47D80D60.3060006@panasas.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1205340884.2941.112.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Wed, Mar 12 2008 at 18:54 +0200, James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 17:24 +0200, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 12 2008 at 17:10 +0200, Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> wrote:
>>> On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
>>>
>>>> Since the separation of sense_buffer from scsi_cmnd, Drivers that hack their
>>>> own struct scsi_cmnd like here isd200, must also take care of their own
>>>> sense_buffer.
>>> Did you run this through checkpatch?
>>>
>>> Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
>>>
>>> Alan Stern
>>>
>>> --
>> No I did not, Thanks. Here it is again.
>> Again this is for 2.6.25 rc-fixes a NULL dereference bugfix!
>>
>> ---
>> From: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
>> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:23:06 +0200
>> Subject: [PATCH] isd200: Allocate sense_buffer for hacked up scsi_cmnd
>>
>> Since the separation of sense_buffer from scsi_cmnd, Drivers that hack their
>> own struct scsi_cmnd like here isd200, must also take care of their own
>> sense_buffer.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
>> ---
>> drivers/usb/storage/isd200.c | 8 ++++++--
>> 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/usb/storage/isd200.c b/drivers/usb/storage/isd200.c
>> index 2ae1e86..ac1764b 100644
>> --- a/drivers/usb/storage/isd200.c
>> +++ b/drivers/usb/storage/isd200.c
>> @@ -294,6 +294,7 @@ struct isd200_info {
>> unsigned char MaxLUNs;
>> struct scsi_cmnd srb;
>> struct scatterlist sg;
>> + u8 *sense_buffer;
>
> There's no real need to add this parameter, since all you're doing is
> assigning it to srb.sense_buffer, there's no need to have an extra
> pointer for it.
>
You are right, thanks.
>> };
>>
>>
>> @@ -1469,6 +1470,7 @@ static void isd200_free_info_ptrs(void *info_)
>> if (info) {
>> kfree(info->id);
>> kfree(info->RegsBuf);
>> + kfree(info->sense_buffer);
>> }
>> }
>>
>> @@ -1494,11 +1496,13 @@ static int isd200_init_info(struct us_data *us)
>> kzalloc(sizeof(struct hd_driveid), GFP_KERNEL);
>> info->RegsBuf = (unsigned char *)
>> kmalloc(sizeof(info->ATARegs), GFP_KERNEL);
>> - if (!info->id || !info->RegsBuf) {
>> + info->sense_buffer = kmalloc(SCSI_SENSE_BUFFERSIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
> ^ kzalloc is probably best
>> + if (!info->id || !info->RegsBuf || !info->sense_buffer) {
>> isd200_free_info_ptrs(info);
>> kfree(info);
>
> Needs to be a kfree(info->sense_buffer) to avoid leaks if the others
> couldn't allocate ... it also looks like there are missing
> kfree(info->id) and (info->RegsBuf) that fix leaks that aren't part of
> this patch.
No! that's fine. There is no leaks. the call to isd200_free_info_ptrs takes
care of that.
>
>> retStatus = ISD200_ERROR;
>> - }
>> + } else
>> + info->srb.sense_buffer = info->sense_buffer;
>> }
>>
>> if (retStatus == ISD200_GOOD) {
>
> James
>
>
Resend as reply to this mail.
Boaz
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-12 17:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-09 12:41 [PATCH] [SCSI] gdth: Allocate sense_buffer to prevent NULL pointer dereference Sven Schnelle
2008-03-10 15:20 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-03-10 21:12 ` James Bottomley
2008-03-10 21:50 ` Sven Schnelle
2008-03-11 15:47 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-03-11 16:16 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-03-11 17:39 ` Matthew Dharm
2008-03-11 18:07 ` Alan Stern
2008-03-11 18:36 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-03-11 19:18 ` Alan Stern
2008-03-12 13:07 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-03-12 13:11 ` [PATCH] isd200: Allocate sense_buffer for hacked up scsi_cmnd Boaz Harrosh
2008-03-12 15:10 ` Alan Stern
2008-03-12 15:24 ` [PATCH resend] " Boaz Harrosh
2008-03-12 16:54 ` James Bottomley
2008-03-12 17:05 ` Boaz Harrosh [this message]
2008-03-12 17:20 ` [PATCH ver3] " Boaz Harrosh
2008-03-13 20:01 ` Andrew Morton
2008-03-13 20:16 ` James Bottomley
2008-03-12 13:55 ` [PATCH] isd200: Fix memory leak in isd200_get_inquiry_data Boaz Harrosh
2008-03-12 15:11 ` Alan Stern
2008-03-12 15:08 ` [PATCH] [SCSI] gdth: Allocate sense_buffer to prevent NULL pointer dereference Alan Stern
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