linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PATCH] SCSI bug fixes for 2.6.24-rc3

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Date:	Tue, 8 Jan 2008 14:15:53 +0300
From:	Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@...l.ru>
To:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-scsi <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] SCSI bug fixes for 2.6.24-rc3

On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 01:24:25PM +0200, James Bottomley wrote:
> This is a bit of a rash of bug fixes.  The qla1280 is actually a bug fix
> (in spite of the title---it's actually correcting an existing problem
> with the qla1280 implementation of accessors that broke the current
> driver).
> 

Recently I build last Linus's git tree, and got:
‘req_cnt’ is used uninitialized in this function,
and see bellow
> The patch is available here:
> 
> master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6.git
> 
> The short changelog is:
...
> Jes Sorensen (1):
>       qla1280: convert to use the data buffer accessors
> 
...
>  scsi/qla1280.c         |  387 +++++++++++++++++++++----------------------------
...
>  	/* Calculate number of entries and segments required. */
> -	req_cnt = 1;
> 

Initilization of req_cnt was removed, but in this function
there are places like 
req_cnt += (seg_cnt - 4) / 7;
or
req_cnt++;
This is should be so?

-- 
/Evgeniy

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