From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755323AbcGVSeS (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jul 2016 14:34:18 -0400 Received: from mail-pa0-f67.google.com ([209.85.220.67]:36608 "EHLO mail-pa0-f67.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750791AbcGVSeQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jul 2016 14:34:16 -0400 Message-ID: <57926727.840e420a.d7fc9.38dd@mx.google.com> X-Google-Original-Message-ID: <20160722183408.9415-1-me> From: tom.ty89@gmail.com X-Google-Original-From: me To: tj@kernel.org, hare@suse.de, sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com, arnd@arndb.de Cc: sfr@canb.auug.org.au, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-next@vger.kernel.org, Tom Yan Subject: [PATCH resend v3 3/5] libata-scsi: use u8 array to store mode page copy Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2016 02:34:08 +0800 X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.9.0 In-Reply-To: References: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Tom Yan ata_mselect_*() would initialize a char array for storing a copy of the current mode page. However, char could be signed char. In that case, bytes larger than 127 would be converted to negative number. For example, 0xff from def_control_mpage[] would become -1. This prevented ata_mselect_control() from working at all, since when it did the read-only bits check, there would always be a mismatch. Signed-off-by: Tom Yan diff --git a/drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c b/drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c index 4a4e6f1..5cfcb4b 100644 --- a/drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c +++ b/drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c @@ -3610,7 +3610,7 @@ static int ata_mselect_caching(struct ata_queued_cmd *qc, { struct ata_taskfile *tf = &qc->tf; struct ata_device *dev = qc->dev; - char mpage[CACHE_MPAGE_LEN]; + u8 mpage[CACHE_MPAGE_LEN]; u8 wce, mask; int i; @@ -3668,7 +3668,7 @@ static int ata_mselect_control(struct ata_queued_cmd *qc, const u8 *buf, int len, u16 *fp) { struct ata_device *dev = qc->dev; - char mpage[CONTROL_MPAGE_LEN]; + u8 mpage[CONTROL_MPAGE_LEN]; u8 d_sense, mask; int i; -- 2.9.0