Re: [PATCH] scsi_lib: add NULL check to scsi_setup_blk_pc_cmnd

[Jörn Engel <joern@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 23 July 2012 23:45:55 +0400, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-07-23 at 13:32 -0400, Jörn Engel wrote:
> > At least two slightly different paths can lead to a NULL pointer
> > dereference in scsi_prep_state_check and have been hit in practice.
> 
> Have you checked this with the patches in scsi-misc?  There's a series
> of patches in there that alters the way sdev handling is done.

I would have liked to, but the tree referenced in MAINTAINERS does not
appear to exist:

git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6.git
Cloning into 'scsi-misc-2.6'...
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

Jörn

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