linux-kernel - [ 15/59] cciss: Fix scsi tape io with more than 255 scatter gather elements

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Date:	Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:06:26 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	"Stephen M. Cameron" <scameron@...rdog.cce.hp.com>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Subject: [ 15/59] cciss: Fix scsi tape io with more than 255 scatter gather elements

3.0-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: "Stephen M. Cameron" <scameron@...rdog.cce.hp.com>

commit bc67f63650fad6b3478d9ddfd5406d45a95987c9 upstream.

The total number of scatter gather elements in the CISS command
used by the scsi tape code was being cast to a u8, which can hold
at most 255 scatter gather elements.  It should have been cast to
a u16.  Without this patch the command gets rejected by the controller
since the total scatter gather count did not add up to the right
value resulting in an i/o error.

Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@...rdog.cce.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/block/cciss_scsi.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/block/cciss_scsi.c
+++ b/drivers/block/cciss_scsi.c
@@ -1411,7 +1411,7 @@ static void cciss_scatter_gather(ctlr_in
 	/* track how many SG entries we are using */
 	if (request_nsgs > h->maxSG)
 		h->maxSG = request_nsgs;
-	c->Header.SGTotal = (__u8) request_nsgs + chained;
+	c->Header.SGTotal = (u16) request_nsgs + chained;
 	if (request_nsgs > h->max_cmd_sgentries)
 		c->Header.SGList = h->max_cmd_sgentries;
 	else

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