Re: [PATCH v2] scsi: pmcraid: Fix memory allocation in 'pmcraid_alloc_sglist()'

[Martin K. Petersen]

Christoph,

> The whole passthrough ioctl path looks completely broken to me.  For
> example it dma maps the scatterlist and after that copies data to it,
> which is prohibited by the DMA API contract.
>
> So I'd be tempted to just remove the PMCRAID_PASSTHROUGH_IOCTL ioctl
> implementation entirely, and if users for it do pop up we should
> reimplement it using the proper block layer request mapping helpers.

Given that nobody has complained since 2018 I propose we remove it.

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering