On Tue, Aug 08, 2017 at 12:42:17PM +0100, Chris Clayton wrote: > On 07/08/17 21:32, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled > > > > scsi: sg: fix SG_DXFER_FROM_DEV transfers > > > > to the 4.12-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-sg-fix-sg_dxfer_from_dev-transfers.patch > > and it can be found in the queue-4.12 subdirectory. > > > > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, > > please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. > > > > Johannes' commit message says that the transfer must have a length bigger than 0, so the code should return false if the > length is less than or equal to 0, but the test is for less than 0. > > But in any case, there's another patch that removes all this sg_is_valid_dxfer() jiggery-pokery and replaces it with a > simpler test. It hasn't reached Linus' tree yet but is, I believe, cc'd to stable. Yup, I hope James is sending it out for this weekend's -rc and then it should be backported to stable instead. James any plans in doing otherwise? Greg is this acceptible for you? Thanks, Johannes -- Johannes Thumshirn Storage jthumshirn@xxxxxxx +49 911 74053 689 SUSE LINUX GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) Key fingerprint = EC38 9CAB C2C4 F25D 8600 D0D0 0393 969D 2D76 0850