Re: [scsi 5/7 RESEND] scsi_debug: schedule_resp fix input variable check

From: James Bottomley
Date: Wed Aug 26 2015 - 19:38:08 EST


On Tue, 2015-08-25 at 21:03 +0000, Winkler, Tomas wrote:
>
> > > + /* this should never happen */
> > > + if (WARN_ON(!cmnd))
> > > + return SCSI_MLQUEUE_HOST_BUSY;
> > >
> > > - if (NULL == cmnd || NULL == devip) {
> > > - pr_warn("called with NULL cmnd or devip pointer\n");
> > > + if (NULL == devip) {
> > > + pr_warn("called devip == NULL\n");
> > > /* no particularly good error to report back */
> > > return SCSI_MLQUEUE_HOST_BUSY;
> > > }
> >
> > Please refer to the patch I just posted, we can't return _HOST_BUSY here
> > if devip == NULL. I posted a fix against the current "misc" branch as
> > I don't see this patch applied, let me know if I need to update it.
>
>
> I'm just not sure why the patches are not merged or even rejected.

Because ideally I want a Maintainer ack. That's Doug Gilbert.

> I'm submitting patches to the Linux kernel for more than 10 years to
> various trees and I can agree that these are not some urgent fixes,
> but this is the first time my effort is ignored for such long time by
> the maintainer.

Well, OK, I trust martin, I'll override the lack of Maintainer ack if
you fix as Ewan suggests.

James


> Thanks
> Tomas
>
> NrybXÇv^)Þ{.n+{"{ayÊÚ,jfhzw j:+vwjmzZ+Ýj"!



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