linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] SCSI fixes for 4.18-rc3

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Date:   Mon, 9 Jul 2018 17:41:34 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>
Cc:     Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linux SCSI List <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] SCSI fixes for 4.18-rc3

On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 10:22 PM James Bottomley
<James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com> wrote:
>
> We did discuss removing the r/w interface, but, as you say, it's been
> around for ages so it's not clear what regressions would surface if we
> did.

So since nobody else followed up on this, the attached patch is what I
was thinking of just committing.

It removes the warnings from the access check, and just puts them
(unconditionally) at the top of the read/write function instead.

Hmm?

                 Linus

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