On 7/31/18 1:51 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
> This is a follow-up to commit f7068114d45e ("sr: pass down correctly
> sized SCSI sense buffer") which further cleans up and removes needless
> sense character array buffers and "struct request_sense" usage in favor
> of the common "struct scsi_sense_hdr".
>
> First, drop a bunch of unused sense buffers:
> [PATCH 1/9] ide-cd: Drop unused sense buffers
> [PATCH 2/9] scsi: cxlflash: Drop unused sense buffers
>
> Next, allow the sense buffer to be usable outside SCSI tree:
> [PATCH 3/9] scsi: build scsi_common.o for all scsi passthrough request users
> [PATCH 4/9] target: don't depend on SCSI
>
> Then move all request_sense usage to scsi_sense_hdr:
> [PATCH 5/9] block: Switch struct packet_command to use struct scsi_sense_hdr
>
> And do some further cleanups for scsi_sense_hdr now that we can:
> [PATCH 6/9] ide-cd: Remove redundant sense buffer
> [PATCH 7/9] cdrom: Use struct scsi_sense_hdr internally
>
> Finally add a build-time check to make sure we don't pass bad buffer sizes:
> [PATCH 8/9] libata-scsi: Move sense buffers onto stack
> [PATCH 9/9] scsi: Check sense buffer size at build time
Thanks Kees, applied for 4.19. Note that I hand applied patch #5 and #9,
since they did not apply directly to the block tree.
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Jens Axboe
