The sshdr passed into scsi_execute_cmd is only initialized if scsi_execute_cmd returns >= 0, and scsi_mode_sense will convert all non good statuses like check conditions to -EIO. This has scsi_mode_sense callers that were possibly accessing an uninitialized sshdrs to only access it if we got -EIO. Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michael.christie@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Martin Wilck <mwilck@xxxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/sd.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/sd.c b/drivers/scsi/sd.c index 6d4787ff6e96..538ebdf42c69 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/sd.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/sd.c @@ -2942,7 +2942,7 @@ sd_read_cache_type(struct scsi_disk *sdkp, unsigned char *buffer) } bad_sense: - if (scsi_sense_valid(&sshdr) && + if (res == -EIO && scsi_sense_valid(&sshdr) && sshdr.sense_key == ILLEGAL_REQUEST && sshdr.asc == 0x24 && sshdr.ascq == 0x0) /* Invalid field in CDB */ @@ -2990,7 +2990,7 @@ static void sd_read_app_tag_own(struct scsi_disk *sdkp, unsigned char *buffer) sd_first_printk(KERN_WARNING, sdkp, "getting Control mode page failed, assume no ATO\n"); - if (scsi_sense_valid(&sshdr)) + if (res == -EIO && scsi_sense_valid(&sshdr)) sd_print_sense_hdr(sdkp, &sshdr); return; -- 2.34.1