On Fri, Feb 03, 2017 at 09:54:50AM +0100, Hannes Reinecke wrote: > From: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@xxxxxxx> > > Check for a valid direction before starting the request, otherwise we risk > running into an assertion in the scsi midlayer checking for vaild requests. Good idea, but.. > +static bool sg_is_valid_direction(int dxfer_direction) > +{ > + switch (dxfer_direction) { > + case SG_DXFER_NONE: > + case SG_DXFER_TO_DEV: > + case SG_DXFER_FROM_DEV: > + case SG_DXFER_TO_FROM_DEV: This isn't strictly valid as sg doesn't actually handle real bidi commands, but we work around it. It might be a good idea to move the warning about it from sg_write to here and use printk_ratelimited instead of the hand-rolled per-thread warning there. > + case SG_DXFER_UNKNOWN: > + return true; And how valid is this one (Question to Doug I guess): for a 0-sized transfer we should be fine, but otherwise it should probably be rejected.