Re: [PATCH] scsi: ses: Handle positive SCSI error from ses_recv_diag()

From: Hannes Reinecke

Date: Fri Mar 13 2026 - 03:27:37 EST


On 2/23/26 16:44, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
ses_recv_diag() can return a positive value, which also means that an
error happened, so do not only test for negative values.

Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxx>
Assisted-by: gkh_clanker_2000
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/scsi/ses.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/ses.c b/drivers/scsi/ses.c
index 35101e9b7ba7..128042c734cc 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/ses.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/ses.c
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ static unsigned char *ses_get_page2_descriptor(struct enclosure_device *edev,
unsigned char *type_ptr = ses_dev->page1_types;
unsigned char *desc_ptr = ses_dev->page2 + 8;
- if (ses_recv_diag(sdev, 2, ses_dev->page2, ses_dev->page2_len) < 0)
+ if (ses_recv_diag(sdev, 2, ses_dev->page2, ses_dev->page2_len))
return NULL;
for (i = 0; i < ses_dev->page1_num_types; i++, type_ptr += 4) {

Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx>

Cheers,

Hannes
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