From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
To: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Cc: "Martin K . Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs@math.uh.edu>,
Doug Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailinglist <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux SCSI Mailinglist <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: sg: only check for dxfer_len greater than 256M
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2017 08:51:56 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yq1mv7qvy8j.fsf@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170727071126.4717-1-jthumshirn@suse.de> (Johannes Thumshirn's message of "Thu, 27 Jul 2017 09:11:26 +0200")
Johannes,
> Don't make any assumptions on the sg_io_hdr_t::dxfer_direction or the
> sg_io_hdr_t::dxferp in order to determine if it is a valid
> request. The only way we can check for bad requests is by checking if
> the length exceeds 256M.
Applied to 4.13/scsi-fixes. Thanks!
--
Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-27 12:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-27 7:11 [PATCH] scsi: sg: only check for dxfer_len greater than 256M Johannes Thumshirn
2017-07-27 8:43 ` Hannes Reinecke
2017-07-27 12:51 ` Martin K. Petersen [this message]
2017-07-27 13:05 ` Jason L Tibbitts III
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