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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/3] scsi: megaraid_sas: check user-provided offsets
On Sun, Jan 03, 2021 at 05:26:29PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> Thank you for the report and bisecting the issue, and sorry this broke
> your system!
>
> Fortunately, the patch is fairly small, so there are only a limited number
> of things that could go wrong. I haven't tried to analyze that message,
> but I have two ideas:
>
> a) The added ioc->sense_off check gets triggered and the code relies
> on the data being written outside of the structure
>
> b) the address actually needs to always be written as a 64-bit value
> regardless of the instance->consistent_mask_64bit flag, as the
> driver did before. This looked like it was done in error.
>
> Can you try the patch below instead of the revert and see if that
> resolves the regression, and if it triggers the warning message I
> add?

Thanks Arnd, I tried your patch and it resolves the regression. It does not
trigger the warning message you added.

Phil

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