linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] scsi disk: Use its own buffer for the vpd request

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Date:	Fri, 30 Aug 2013 18:53:37 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Nix <nix@...eri.org.uk>
Cc:	Bernd Schubert <bernd.schubert@...tmail.fm>,
	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, nick.cheng@...ca.com.tw,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@...erlog.com>,
	"James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi disk: Use its own buffer for the vpd request

On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 11:01:56AM +0100, Nix wrote:
> On 1 Aug 2013, Bernd Schubert said:
> 
> > Once I noticed that scsi_get_vpd_page() works fine from other function
> > calls and that it is not 0x89, but already 0x0 that fails fixing it became
> > easy.
> >
> > Nix, any chance you could verify it also works for you?
> 
> As an aside, this commit does indeed fix the bug I reported, but it
> doesn't seem to have gone anywhere, not even into -stable.
> 
> Is it held up somehow?
> 
> (stable has
> 
> commit 0ac10bd036f0f3b8ce7ac2390446eab9531c72eb
> Author: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
> Date:   Tue Jul 30 22:58:34 2013 -0400
> 
>     SCSI: Don't attempt to send extended INQUIRY command if skip_vpd_pages is set
> 
> which IIRC was eventually found not to be necessary, because this fix
> works fine instead?)
> 
> Possibly I'm misremembering the order of month-old events and Martin's
> fix was eventually considered better... in which case, sorry for the noise.

Is that other patch even needed anymore, now that Martin's patch is in
the tree?

thanks,

greg k-h
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