linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Fix miscalculation of sg_io timeout in CDROM_SEND

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Date:	Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:45:08 -0700
From:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
To:	Tim Wright <timw@...hi.com>
Cc:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix miscalculation of sg_io timeout in
 CDROM_SEND_PACKET handler.

On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:43:35 -0700 Tim Wright wrote:

> James Bottomley wrote:
> > On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 17:50 -0700, Tim Wright wrote:
> >   
> >> @@ -629,7 +629,7 @@ int scsi_cmd_ioctl(struct file *file, st
> >>                         hdr.sbp = cgc.sense;
> >>                         if (hdr.sbp)
> >>                                 hdr.mx_sb_len = sizeof(struct 
> >> request_sense);
> >> -                       hdr.timeout = cgc.timeout;
> >> +                       hdr.timeout = jiffies_to_msecs(cgc.timeout);
> >>                         hdr.cmdp = ((struct cdrom_generic_command 
> >> __user*) arg)->cmd;
> >>                         hdr.cmd_len = sizeof(cgc.cmd);
> >>     
> >
> > I'm afraid this patch is completely whitespace damaged:  the tabs have
> > all become spaces and the mailer has broken some of the lines.
> >
> > Since it's a one liner, I can make the fix directly, but if you look at
> >
> > Documentation/SubmittingPatches
> >
> > It has some good advice about how to fix your email tool to prevent this
> > from happening in future.
> >
> > James
> >
> >
> >   
> Ugh, mea culpa! Thanks James. I haven't submitted anything in a while, 
> and was using Thunderbird. I will
> go off and figure out how to make it leave the contents alone, or I'll 
> use a less "clever" client in future.
> Many thanks for the response and the gentle coaching :-)

also see Documentation/email-clients.txt


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