On 01/21/2016 07:35 AM, Alexander Duyck wrote:
> This patch is meant to fix the RCU handling for VPD pages.  The original
> code had a number of issues including the fact that the local variables
> were being declared as __rcu, the RCU variable being directly accessed
> outside of the RCU locked region, and the fact that length was not
> associated with the data so it would be possible to get a mix and match of
> the length for one VPD page with the data from another.
> 
> Fixes: 09e2b0b14690 ("scsi: rescan VPD attributes")
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <adu...@mirantis.com>
> ---
>  drivers/scsi/scsi.c        |   52 
> +++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
>  drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c    |   12 +++++-----
>  drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c  |   14 +++++++-----
>  include/scsi/scsi_device.h |   14 ++++++++----
>  4 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-)
> 
Thanks for fixing this up. I didn't really like the two distinct
variables for vpd buffer and length, too, but hadn't thought of
using a struct for here.

Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <h...@suse.com>

Cheers,

Hannes
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