linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH] Revert "scsi: qla2xxx: Fix memcpy() field-spanning write issue"

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Message-ID: <70657b10-32a3-4c4f-bb53-e95d88435d58@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2025 05:35:22 -0400
From: John Meneghini <jmeneghi@...hat.com>
To: martin.petersen@...cle.com
Cc: axboe@...nel.dk, emilne@...hat.com, gustavoars@...nel.org, hare@...e.de,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "scsi: qla2xxx: Fix memcpy() field-spanning write
 issue"

Martin,

I don't see this patch in scsi/6.18/scsi-queue yet.

Are we going to revert this ?

/John

On 9/25/25 2:57 PM, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> 
> 
> On 9/25/25 15:07, John Meneghini wrote:
>> This reverts commit 6f4b10226b6b1e7d1ff3cdb006cf0f6da6eed71e.
>>
>> We've been testing this patch and it turns out there is a significant
>> bug here. This leaks memory and causes a driver hang.
>>
>> Link:
>> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-scsi/yq1zfajqpec.fsf@ca-mkp.ca.oracle.com/
>>
>> Signed-off-by: John Meneghini <jmeneghi@...hat.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@...nel.org>
> 
> Thanks!
> -Gustavo
>