From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:41600 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752120AbdHHQQu (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Aug 2017 12:16:50 -0400 Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2017 09:16:49 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Johannes Thumshirn Cc: Chris Clayton , James Bottomley , dgilbert@interlog.com, hare@suse.com, martin.petersen@oracle.com, stable@vger.kernel.org, stable-commits@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Patch "scsi: sg: fix SG_DXFER_FROM_DEV transfers" has been added to the 4.12-stable tree Message-ID: <20170808161649.GA23338@kroah.com> References: <1502137958231142@kroah.com> <7f2007f7-1952-782e-b694-ed07b57008bb@googlemail.com> <20170808121935.GH3926@linux-x5ow.site> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170808121935.GH3926@linux-x5ow.site> Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Aug 08, 2017 at 02:20:22PM +0200, Johannes Thumshirn wrote: > On Tue, Aug 08, 2017 at 12:42:17PM +0100, Chris Clayton wrote: > > On 07/08/17 21:32, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote: > > > > > > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled > > > > > > scsi: sg: fix SG_DXFER_FROM_DEV transfers > > > > > > to the 4.12-stable tree which can be found at: > > > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary > > > > > > The filename of the patch is: > > > scsi-sg-fix-sg_dxfer_from_dev-transfers.patch > > > and it can be found in the queue-4.12 subdirectory. > > > > > > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, > > > please let know about it. > > > > > > > Johannes' commit message says that the transfer must have a length bigger than 0, so the code should return false if the > > length is less than or equal to 0, but the test is for less than 0. > > > > But in any case, there's another patch that removes all this sg_is_valid_dxfer() jiggery-pokery and replaces it with a > > simpler test. It hasn't reached Linus' tree yet but is, I believe, cc'd to stable. > > Yup, I hope James is sending it out for this weekend's -rc and then it should > be backported to stable instead. > > James any plans in doing otherwise? > Greg is this acceptible for you? That's fine, I'll queue it up when it lands in a released -rc. thanks, greg k-h