Since blk_execute_rq() no longer allocates a sense buffer and no longer initializes the sense pointer the callers of blk_execute_rq() have to do initialize the sense pointer. Hence this patch that initializes rq->sense and that removes a superfluous memcpy() statement. Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Cc: Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v4.11+ Fixes: 82ed4db499b8 ("block: split scsi_request out of struct request") Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c index 4feba3b5aff1..8b9f4b1bca35 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c @@ -271,6 +271,7 @@ int __scsi_execute(struct scsi_device *sdev, const unsigned char *cmd, rq->cmd_len = COMMAND_SIZE(cmd[0]); memcpy(rq->cmd, cmd, rq->cmd_len); rq->retries = retries; + rq->sense = sense; req->timeout = timeout; req->cmd_flags |= flags; req->rq_flags |= rq_flags | RQF_QUIET; @@ -291,8 +292,6 @@ int __scsi_execute(struct scsi_device *sdev, const unsigned char *cmd, if (resid) *resid = rq->resid_len; - if (sense && rq->sense_len) - memcpy(sense, rq->sense, SCSI_SENSE_BUFFERSIZE); if (sshdr) scsi_normalize_sense(rq->sense, rq->sense_len, sshdr); ret = rq->result; -- 2.20.1.321.g9e740568ce-goog