Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 3 Feb 2009 07:48:35 +0100 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH resend] bsg: Fix sense buffer bug in SG_IO |
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On Tue, Feb 03 2009, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > > When submitting requests via SG_IO, which does a sync io, a > bsg_command is not allocated. So an in-Kernel sense_buffer was not > set. However when calling blk_execute_rq() with no sense buffer > one is provided from the stack. Now bsg at blk_complete_sgv4_hdr_rq() > would check if rq->sense_len and a sense was requested by sg_io_v4 > the rq->sense was copy_user() back, but by now it is already mangled > stack memory. > > I have fixed that by forcing a sense_buffer when calling bsg_map_hdr(). > The bsg_command->sense is provided in the write/read path like before, > and on-the-stack buffer is provided when doing SG_IO. > > I have also fixed a dprintk message to print rq->errors in hex because > of the scsi bit-field use of this member. For other block devices it > does not matter anyway.
Thanks for the resend Boaz, I'll make sure it gets upstream for 2.6.29.
-- Jens Axboe
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