On Mon, 23 July 2012 23:45:55 +0400, James Bottomley wrote: > On Mon, 2012-07-23 at 13:32 -0400, Jörn Engel wrote: > > At least two slightly different paths can lead to a NULL pointer > > dereference in scsi_prep_state_check and have been hit in practice. > > Have you checked this with the patches in scsi-misc? There's a series > of patches in there that alters the way sdev handling is done. I would have liked to, but the tree referenced in MAINTAINERS does not appear to exist: git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6.git Cloning into 'scsi-misc-2.6'... fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly Jörn -- The object-oriented version of 'Spaghetti code' is, of course, 'Lasagna code'. (Too many layers). -- Roberto Waltman. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html