and once more in plain text. (sorry vger) 2010/1/11 Marc Bejarano <beej@xxxxxxxx>: > oops. seems that GMANE's reply function only goes to a single "newsgroup". > original recipients re-added. > marc > ---- > From: Marc Bejarano <beej <at> beej.org> > Subject: Re: [PATCH]drivers/ata/libata-eh.c:1509 unneeded memset() > Newsgroups: gmane.linux.scsi > Date: 2010-01-08 22:21:09 GMT (2 days, 20 hours and 40 minutes ago) > > René Bolldorf <xsecute <at> googlemail.com> writes: >> On 01/08/10 16:28, James Bottomley wrote: >> > On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 14:15 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: >> >> On 12/30/2009 05:59 PM, René Bolldorf wrote: >> >>> We don't need this . > >> >>> - /* FIXME: is this needed? */ >> >>> - memset(sense_buf, 0, SCSI_SENSE_BUFFERSIZE); >> >> >> >> I need a little bit more detail than an unqualified statement... Did >> >> you audit all paths leading to this code point? > >> > But one also here: >> > >> > u8 *sense_buffer = dev->link->ap->sector_buf; >> > [...] >> > err_mask = atapi_eh_request_sense(dev, sense_buffer, sense_key); >> > >> > Which doesn't look OK because it looks like the sector_buf isn't cleared >> > (and it is reused). >> > >> > James >> > >> > >> >> Thank's, you're right. I have overseen this, sry for that. > > René: perhaps you'd like to submit a patch that substitutes FIXME comment > for one that explains why the memset is needed, crediting James in the > description? we may as well gain something permanent from this discussion > that you started :) > > cheers, > marc > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in > the body of a message to majordomo <at> vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > ---- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
