On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 11:36 AM, Madhani, Himanshu
<himanshu.madh...@cavium.com> wrote:
> Hi Kees,
>
>> On Oct 31, 2017, at 11:28 AM, Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org> wrote:
>>
>> How very strange. I don't see any code change with this patch. Even
>> the passed arguments are the same; it's only enforcing the types now.
>> And the system is fine with only this patch reverted?
>
> Yes. Agree patch looks okay, but with the patch built into driver I see
> system going into infinite loop of trying to bring link up and lock up
> after few minutes, Only way to recover is hard reboot.
>
> I reverted this patch after system boot up and rebuild qla2xxx and able
> to load driver.

The patch is a result of three logical steps, so maybe something
unexpected is happening. I'll send the 3 steps broken out...

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Pixel Security

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