On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 05:45:22PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote: > On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 20:35 +0100, Stefan Richter wrote: > > When preparing a request in scsi_lib or in a SCSI high-level driver, > > always set a transfer direction of DMA_NONE if data length is zero, > > even for alleged write requests. (Extended patch derived from Jens > > Axboe's version.) > > > > Write requests with request buffer length == 0 lead to kernel panic > > or oops if channeled through sbp2: > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux1394-devel&m=113399994920181 > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux1394-user&m=112152701817435 > > > > Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > The problem is that I already picked up Jens' patch in rc fixes, so this > no-longer applies. However, given that the fix needed to be in four > separate places, which looks rather bad, I propose the following > consolidation instead. Please make the export _GPL so people see it's internal and can go away real soon. Hopefull for 2.6.16 already when Mike's patch series is merged. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
