Juergen, > sshdr is output only data, so setting it before returning seems to be a > sensible thing to do. I would love to rototill all this and make sense make sense (!) but that's a major undertaking. Until then we need to validate that callers check the return value before they start poking at the sense data. Even if things were zeroed ahead of time, other things could have gone wrong that would affect how an error condition should be handled. > Letting the callers do that is kind of a layering violation IMHO, scsi_execute_cmd() is one big layering violation, I'm afraid. -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering