Re: [PATCH] fix up request buffer reference in various scsi drivers

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On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 01:40:01PM -0400, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-06-03 at 13:21 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Various scsi drivers use scsi_cmnd.buffer and scsi_cmnd.bufflen in their
> > queuecommand functions.  Those fields are internal storage for the
> > midlayer only and are used to restore the original payload after
> > request_buffer and request_bufflen have been overwritten for EH.  Using
> > the buffer and bufflen fields means they do very broken things in error
> > handling.
> 
> We probably need this too, don't we?

At this point both values are always the same.  The patch I sent is just
driver fixes, all the core changes are in the second patch I sent out as
an rfc.

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