On 10/03/2017 12:48 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> The current BSG design tries to shoe-horn the transport-specific passthrough
> commands into the overall framework for SCSI passthrough requests.  This
> has a couple problems:
> 
>  - each passthrough queue has to set the QUEUE_FLAG_SCSI_PASSTHROUGH flag
>    despite not dealing with SCSI commands at all.  Because of that these
>    queues could also incorrectly accept SCSI commands from in-kernel
>    users or through the legacy SCSI_IOCTL_SEND_COMMAND ioctl.
>  - the real SCSI bsg queues also incorrectly accept bsg requests of the
>    BSG_SUB_PROTOCOL_SCSI_TRANSPORT type
>  - the bsg transport code is almost unredable because it tries to reuse
>    different SCSI concepts for its own purpose.
> 
> This patch instead adds a new bsg_ops structure to handle the two cases
> differently, and thus solves all of the above problems.  Another side
> effect is that the bsg-lib queues also don't need to embedd a
> struct scsi_request anymore.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <h...@lst.de>
> ---
>  block/bsg-lib.c                   | 158 +++++++++++++++--------
>  block/bsg.c                       | 257 
> +++++++++++++++++---------------------
>  drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c           |   4 +-
>  drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c         |   3 +-
>  drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_sas.c |   1 -
>  include/linux/bsg-lib.h           |   4 +-
>  include/linux/bsg.h               |  35 ++++--
>  7 files changed, 251 insertions(+), 211 deletions(-)
> 
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <h...@suse.com>

Cheers,

Hannes
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