Re: [PATCH] scsi disk: Use its own buffer for the vpd request

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 11:01:56AM +0100, Nix wrote:
> On 1 Aug 2013, Bernd Schubert said:
> 
> > Once I noticed that scsi_get_vpd_page() works fine from other function
> > calls and that it is not 0x89, but already 0x0 that fails fixing it became
> > easy.
> >
> > Nix, any chance you could verify it also works for you?
> 
> As an aside, this commit does indeed fix the bug I reported, but it
> doesn't seem to have gone anywhere, not even into -stable.
> 
> Is it held up somehow?
> 
> (stable has
> 
> commit 0ac10bd036f0f3b8ce7ac2390446eab9531c72eb
> Author: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
> Date:   Tue Jul 30 22:58:34 2013 -0400
> 
>     SCSI: Don't attempt to send extended INQUIRY command if skip_vpd_pages is set
> 
> which IIRC was eventually found not to be necessary, because this fix
> works fine instead?)
> 
> Possibly I'm misremembering the order of month-old events and Martin's
> fix was eventually considered better... in which case, sorry for the noise.

Is that other patch even needed anymore, now that Martin's patch is in
the tree?

thanks,

greg k-h