Re: [PATCH] scsi: Let scsi_execute_cmd() mark args->sshdr as invalid

[Juergen Gross]

On 21.05.23 03:19, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
> John,
>
> > @Martin, Do you have any preference for what we do now? This code
> > which does not check for error and does not pre-zero sshdr is
> > longstanding, so I am not sure if Juergen's change is required for for
> > v6.4. I'm thinking to fix callers for v6.5 and also maybe change the
> > API, as I described.
>
> As I alluded to in the tracing thread, I'd like to see SK/ASC/ASCQ being
> generally available in the scsi_cmnd results instead of all this sense
> buffer and sense header micromanagement in every caller. That's a pretty
> heavy lift, though.
>
> Short term we need all callers to be fixed up. I'm not a particularly
> big fan of scsi_execute_cmd() zeroing something being passed in. I
> wonder if it would be worth having a DECLARE_SENSE_HEADER()?

sshdr is output only data, so setting it before returning seems to be a
sensible thing to do.

Letting the callers do that is kind of a layering violation IMHO, as this
would spread the knowledge that scsi_execute_cmd() isn't setting its output
data always.

In the end its your decision, of course.


Juergen

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