RE: [PATCH 1/5] stex: Fix for potential invalid response

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: James Bottomley [mailto:James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
>Sent: 2009年1月26日 11:17
>To: Ed Lin - PTU
>Cc: linux-scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Promise_Linux
>Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] stex: Fix for potential invalid response
>
>
>On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 02:40 -0800, Ed Lin - PTU wrote:
>> The interrupt routine is good for normal cases. However, if 
>the firmware
>> is abnormal and returns an invalid response, the driver may reuse a
>> ccb structure which has already been handled. This may cause problem.
>> Fix this by setting the req member to NULL. Next time we know the
>> response is invalid and handle accordingly if req is NULL.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Ed Lin <ed.lin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> 
>> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/stex.c b/drivers/scsi/stex.c
>> index a3a18ad..6129db4 100644
>> --- a/drivers/scsi/stex.c
>> +++ b/drivers/scsi/stex.c
>> @@ -746,6 +746,7 @@ static void stex_mu_intr(struct st_hba *hba, u32
>> doorbell)
>
>The patches generally look fine.  Unfortunately your email tool has
>broken the line ends of most of them (like the above) which makes it
>almost impossible to apply them.  Could you resend with this fixed up?
>

Sure, I will do it shortly. Please let me know if it's still broken.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
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