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From: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
To: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	open-osd mailing-list <osd-dev@open-osd.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] block bits
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:31:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49872DF3.3060401@panasas.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090202131502.GH30821@kernel.dk>

Jens Axboe wrote:
> Hi Linus,
> 
> One critical bit in here, which fixes a reported oops from the iostat
> patch. The others are either trivial/minor or documentation. Please
> pull.
> 
>   git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block.git for-linus
> 
> Alberto Bertogli (2):
>       Fix misleading comment in bio.h
>       bio.h: If they MUST be inlined, then use __always_inline
> 
> Jens Axboe (3):
>       block: fix oops in blk_queue_io_stat()
>       block: fix inconsistent parenthesisation of QUEUE_FLAG_DEFAULT
>       block: add text file detailing queue/ sysfs files
> 

Hi Jens.

The bsg sense handling bug fix, is I think, a security breach in that
Kernel copies dangling Kernel stack back to user-mode. It might even
need a stable release.

At the time I was thinking that since bsg is marked EXPERIMENTAL in
Kconfig then it must not be included in distro's Kernels by default,
but Benny noted that it is included in Fedora since FC8 or FC9.

The patch I sent still applies I think?

Thanks
Boaz

  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-02 17:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-02 13:15 [GIT PULL] block bits Jens Axboe
2009-02-02 17:31 ` Boaz Harrosh [this message]
2009-02-02 18:53   ` Jens Axboe
2009-02-03  6:34     ` [PATCH resend] bsg: Fix sense buffer bug in SG_IO Boaz Harrosh
2009-02-03  6:48       ` Jens Axboe
2009-02-03  6:57       ` FUJITA Tomonori
2009-02-03  7:04         ` Jens Axboe
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-08-26  7:06 [GIT PULL] block bits Jens Axboe
     [not found] ` <alpine.LFD.1.10.0808261009180.3363@nehalem.linux-foundation.org>
     [not found]   ` <20080826185636.GP20055@kernel.dk>
2008-08-26 19:02     ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-26 19:10       ` Jens Axboe
2008-08-26 21:12         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-08-27  7:19           ` Jens Axboe
2008-08-26 20:19       ` Christoph Hellwig

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