[ofa-general] Re: [PATCH 2.6.30.4] Fix for NULL pointer dereference by SRP initiator triggered by a SCSI reset after the SRP connection has been closed

Roland Dreier rdreier at cisco.com
Tue Aug 4 14:39:01 PDT 2009


 > By the way, Vladislav Bolkhovitin was so kind to inform me that this
 > issue is not specific to the SRP initiator. For more information, see
 > also http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.scsi/26166.

I'm not sure I follow this exactly -- the idea is that sg_reset
generates SCSI commands that are somehow different?  What does the LLD
have to do to handle them?

Is the problem that we get a command with bogus host_scribble (since SRP
never saw it before) and so srp_find_req() gets confused?

 - R.



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