This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
SCSI: storvsc: Initialize the sglist
to the 3.8-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
scsi-storvsc-initialize-the-sglist.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.8 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 9d2696e658ef4f209955ddaa987d43f1a1bd81a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2013 05:15:28 -0800
Subject: SCSI: storvsc: Initialize the sglist
From: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 9d2696e658ef4f209955ddaa987d43f1a1bd81a1 upstream.
Properly initialize scatterlist before using it.
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c
@@ -467,6 +467,7 @@ static struct scatterlist *create_bounce
if (!bounce_sgl)
return NULL;
+ sg_init_table(bounce_sgl, num_pages);
for (i = 0; i < num_pages; i++) {
page_buf = alloc_page(GFP_ATOMIC);
if (!page_buf)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.8/scsi-storvsc-initialize-the-sglist.patch
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