On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 12:52:24PM -0400, Tony Battersby wrote:
> Fix a regression introduced in Linux kernel 4.17 where sending a SCSI
> command that does not transfer data (such as TEST UNIT READY) via
> /dev/bsg/* results in EINVAL.
>
> Fixes: 17cb960f29c2 ("bsg: split handling of SCSI CDBs vs transport requeues")
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 4.17+
> Signed-off-by: Tony Battersby <tonyb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> diff --git a/block/bsg.c b/block/bsg.c
> index 66602c4..b16ab6f 100644
> --- a/block/bsg.c
> +++ b/block/bsg.c
> @@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ bsg_map_hdr(struct request_queue *q, str
> ret = blk_rq_map_user(q, rq, NULL, uptr64(hdr->din_xferp),
> hdr->din_xfer_len, GFP_KERNEL);
> } else {
> - ret = blk_rq_map_user(q, rq, NULL, NULL, 0, GFP_KERNEL);
> + ret = 0;
> }
We can remove the else branch entirely as ret already is 0 here.
Otherwise this looks fine and restores the previous behavior:
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
