linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCHES] drivers/scsi/sg.c uaccess cleanups/fixes

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Date:   Mon, 04 Nov 2019 23:54:20 -0500
From:   "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To:     Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCHES] drivers/scsi/sg.c uaccess cleanups/fixes


Hi Al!

> I've got a series that presumably fixes and cleans the things up
> in that area; it didn't get any serious testing (the kernel builds
> and boots, smartctl works as well as it used to, but that's not
> worth much - all it says is that SG_IO doesn't fail terribly;
> I don't have any test setup for really working with /dev/sg*).

I tested this last week without noticing any problems.

What's your plan for this series? Want me to queue it up for 5.5?

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering