linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] SCSI bug fixes for 2.6.36-rc7

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Date:	Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:49:22 -0700
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...e.de>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-scsi <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] SCSI bug fixes for 2.6.36-rc7

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 6:45 AM, James Bottomley
<James.Bottomley@...e.de> wrote:
> This patch set fixes a couple of longstanding bugs in SCSI.  The VPD
> patch fix a possible buffer overrun in the VPD code (only tripped if the
> device has a huge number of VPD pages).  The other is where the status
> return code on our BSG interface is wrongly right shifted one place.

Umm. That other patch seems to be utter crap.

> -       hdr->device_status = status_byte(rq->errors);
> +       hdr->device_status = rq->errors && 0xff;

That's pure shit. Please look at it for one second, and don't send me
crap like this.

                        Linus "grumpy" Torvalds
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