linux-kernel - Re: [ 133/180] cciss: fix incorrect scsi status reporting

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Date:	Thu, 4 Oct 2012 23:49:50 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	"Stephen M. Cameron" <scameron@...rdog.cce.hp.com>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [ 133/180] cciss: fix incorrect scsi status reporting

On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 12:54:10AM +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> 2.6.32-longterm review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> 
> ------------------
> 
> From: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@...rdog.cce.hp.com>
> 
> commit b0cf0b118c90477d1a6811f2cd2307f6a5578362 upstream.
> 
> Delete code which sets SCSI status incorrectly as it's already been set
> correctly above this incorrect code.  The bug was introduced in 2009 by
> commit b0e15f6db111 ("cciss: fix typo that causes scsi status to be
> lost.")

That commit was in 2.6.33 and it changed the '<' to '<<'.  It hasn't
been backported to 2.6.32.y.
 
[...]
> diff --git a/drivers/block/cciss_scsi.c b/drivers/block/cciss_scsi.c
> index 3315268..ad8e592 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/cciss_scsi.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/cciss_scsi.c
> @@ -747,17 +747,7 @@ complete_scsi_command( CommandList_struct *cp, int timeout, __u32 tag)
>  		{
>  			case CMD_TARGET_STATUS:
>  				/* Pass it up to the upper layers... */
> -				if( ei->ScsiStatus)
> -                		{
> -#if 0
> -                    			printk(KERN_WARNING "cciss: cmd %p "
> -					"has SCSI Status = %x\n",
> -                        			cp,  
> -						ei->ScsiStatus); 
> -#endif
> -					cmd->result |= (ei->ScsiStatus < 1);
[...]

Unless ei->ScsiStatus can be negative (it is declared as int, but
I don't think it's actually meant to be negative), this statement
is a no-op.  (It was present for the entire life of this driver up
until 2.6.33, so I suspect that is the case.)  So this backported
patch is unnecessary cleanup, not a bug fix.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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