linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 5/9] block: Switch struct packet_command to use struct scsi_sense

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Message-ID: <20180801082220.GA26378@infradead.org>
Date:   Wed, 1 Aug 2018 01:22:20 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:     Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "Manoj N. Kumar" <manoj@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        "Matthew R. Ochs" <mrochs@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Uma Krishnan <ukrishn@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        "Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@...ux-iscsi.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@...b.com>,
        Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/9] block: Switch struct packet_command to use struct
 scsi_sense_hdr

On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 12:51:50PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> There is a lot of needless struct request_sense usage in the CDROM
> code. These can all be struct scsi_sense_hdr instead, to avoid any
> confusion over their respective structure sizes. This patch is a lot
> of noise changing "sense" to "sshdr", but the final code is more
> readable to distinguish between "sense" meaning "struct request_sense"
> and "sshdr" meaning "struct scsi_sense_hdr".

Looks good,

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>