This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
scsi: use short driver name for per-driver cmd slab caches
to the 3.16-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-use-short-driver-name-for-per-driver-cmd-slab-caches.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.16 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 884ffee01ddde5af260c7a5d1359c658aa1f0a11 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Bottomley <JBottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 12:21:26 -0400
Subject: scsi: use short driver name for per-driver cmd slab caches
From: James Bottomley <JBottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 884ffee01ddde5af260c7a5d1359c658aa1f0a11 upstream.
hostt->name might contain space, so use the ->proc_name short name instead
when creating per-driver command slabs.
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: poma <pomidorabelisima@xxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: poma <pomidorabelisima@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/scsi/scsi.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/scsi/scsi.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi.c
@@ -368,8 +368,8 @@ scsi_alloc_host_cmd_pool(struct Scsi_Hos
if (!pool)
return NULL;
- pool->cmd_name = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "%s_cmd", hostt->name);
- pool->sense_name = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "%s_sense", hostt->name);
+ pool->cmd_name = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "%s_cmd", hostt->proc_name);
+ pool->sense_name = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "%s_sense", hostt->proc_name);
if (!pool->cmd_name || !pool->sense_name) {
scsi_free_host_cmd_pool(pool);
return NULL;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from JBottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.16/scsi-use-short-driver-name-for-per-driver-cmd-slab-caches.patch
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