linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] cciss: Add missing allocation in scsi_cmd_stack

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Date:	Fri, 11 Mar 2011 21:08:25 +0100
From:	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To:	scameron@...rdog.cce.hp.com
CC:	mikem@...rdog.cce.hp.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	thenzl@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	smcameron@...oo.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cciss: Add missing allocation in scsi_cmd_stack_setup
 and  corresponding deallocation

On 2011-03-11 20:46, scameron@...rdog.cce.hp.com wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 08:09:39PM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote:
>> On 2011-03-10 21:22, Stephen M. Cameron wrote:
>>> From: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@...rdog.cce.hp.com>
>>>
>>> This bit got lost somewhere along the way.  Without this, panic.
>>
>> This doesn't apply cleanly, neither hunk. I hand applied it. Please let
>> me know what a patch is against in the future, if it doesn't apply
>> "anywhere".
> 
> Oh... I see what happened.
> 
> That patch was fixing something which was accidentally 
> left out of this patch:
> 
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=129840572232151&w=2
> 
> which I mistakenly thought was present in 2.6.38-rc7,
> but it's not present (quite likely because without the
> missing bit, it causes a panic), It's sitting in my stack of
> patches still.
> 
> [scameron@...alhost linux-2.6.38-rc7]$ stg series | grep cciss
> + cciss-hoist-tag-masking-out-of-loop
> + cciss-inform-controller-we-are-using-32-bit-tags
> + cciss-mask-off-error-bits-before-calling-pci-free-consistent
> + cciss-remove-unnecessary-casts
> + cciss-fix-missed-command-status-value-CMD_UNABORTABLE
> + cciss-add-cciss_tape_cmds-module-parameter
> + cciss-fix-missing-initialization-in-scsi-cmd-stack-setup
> + cciss-export-resettable-host-attribute
> + cciss-fix-sense-data-copying-code
> 
> What needs to happen is I combine cciss-add-cciss_tape_cmds-module-parameter
> and cciss-fix-missing-initialization-in-scsi-cmd-stack-setup into one 
> working patch.

Please check what is missing for my for-2.6.39/drivers branch and send
me the patches.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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