From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Benjamin Block <bblock@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
"#4 . 11+" <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] bsg-lib: fix kernel panic resulting from missing allocation of reply-buffer
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2017 16:18:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170906141804.GA29765@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170906141509.GB8702@bblock-ThinkPad-W530>
On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 04:15:09PM +0200, Benjamin Block wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 08:07:43AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > On 09/06/2017 07:44 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > From: Benjamin Block <bblock@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > >
> > > Since we split the scsi_request out of struct request bsg fails to
> > > provide a reply-buffer for the drivers. This was done via the pointer
> > > for sense-data, that is not preallocated anymore.
> >
> > Confused, this is already in master, was included before 4.13 was
> > finalized.
> >
>
> I think this is the backport for 4.11 and 4.12 as requested by Greg. I
> just send a mail as answer that I would do it, but I guess Christoph
> already had something in the pipe.
>
> Or? I'll take a look.
No, I sent the wrong patch - this was in my queue before the patches
I wanted to send.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-06 14:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20170906134416.19980-1-hch@lst.de>
2017-09-06 13:44 ` [PATCH 1/2] bsg-lib: fix kernel panic resulting from missing allocation of reply-buffer Christoph Hellwig
2017-09-06 14:07 ` Jens Axboe
2017-09-06 14:15 ` Benjamin Block
2017-09-06 14:18 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2017-09-06 13:44 ` [PATCH 2/2] scsi_transport_fc: fix NULL pointer dereference in fc_bsg_job_timeout Christoph Hellwig
2017-09-18 16:28 [PATCH 0/2] bsg-lib: backports for 'fix kernel panic resulting from missing allocation of reply-buffer' Benjamin Block
2017-09-18 16:28 ` [PATCH 1/2] bsg-lib: fix kernel panic resulting from missing allocation of reply-buffer Benjamin Block
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