Re: [patch 5/5] scsi: fix uaccess handling

[James Bottomley]

On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 22:39 +0100, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> > While not your fault I'd suggest to fix the __put_user abuse at the same
> > time, as in the untested patch below for scsi_ioctl.c:
> 
> Makes sense. Even though the whole SCSI_IOCTL_GET_IDLUN ioctl interface
> is pretty pointless.
> It supports only up to 255 different ids and luns and might return the
> same 'dev_id' for two different devices...
> Any user space utility that depends on this interface would do the wrong
> thing (whatever that would be).

So has anyone actually tested this?

James


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