Re: [GIT PATCH] SCSI bug fixes for 2.6.24-rc3

From: Evgeniy Dushistov
Date: Tue Jan 08 2008 - 06:16:29 EST


On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 01:24:25PM +0200, James Bottomley wrote:
> This is a bit of a rash of bug fixes. The qla1280 is actually a bug fix
> (in spite of the title---it's actually correcting an existing problem
> with the qla1280 implementation of accessors that broke the current
> driver).
>

Recently I build last Linus's git tree, and got:
âreq_cntâ is used uninitialized in this function,
and see bellow
> The patch is available here:
>
> master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6.git
>
> The short changelog is:
...
> Jes Sorensen (1):
> qla1280: convert to use the data buffer accessors
>
...
> scsi/qla1280.c | 387 +++++++++++++++++++++----------------------------
...
> /* Calculate number of entries and segments required. */
> - req_cnt = 1;
>

Initilization of req_cnt was removed, but in this function
there are places like
req_cnt += (seg_cnt - 4) / 7;
or
req_cnt++;
This is should be so?

--
/Evgeniy

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