Re: [PATCH] megaraid driver fix for 2.5.70

[Mark Haverkamp <markh@osdl.org>]

On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 07:07, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 10:29, Mark Haverkamp wrote:
> > A recent change to the megaraid driver to fix some memset calls resulted
> > in overflowing the arrays being cleared and causing a system panic. 
> > This patch fixes the problem by making sure that the arrays being
> > cleared are dimensioned to the correct size.  The patch has been tested
> > on osdl's stp machines that have megaraid controllers.
> 
> This patch doesn't quite look like a fix to me:  The megaraid mailboxes
> are always >16 bytes *but* none of the setting commands is supposed to
> touch any of the status parts (which begin at byte 15), so I don't see
> how your patch would prevent a panic.

In the memset cases, what fixed the panic was that the size of the
raw_mbox automatic was set to 16 and the memset was using
sizeof(mbox_t).  I just increased the size of the raw_mbox so it
wouldn't be overflowed.  It sounds like, from what you are saying, that
the size of raw_mbox should have been left at 16 and the memset changed
to fill 16 bytes and not the sizeof(mbox_t).

> 
> It also looks like the first fifteen (not sixteen) bytes are user data
> and the remaining 51 are for data from the card.
> 
> It thus looks like this memcpy in both issue_scb() and issue_scb_block()
> may be wrong
> 
> 	memcpy((char *)mbox, (char *)scb->raw_mbox, 16);
> 
> because it's overwriting the mbox->busy return.

This doesn't seem like it would hurt since issue_scb sets mbox->busy
just after the memcpy. and in issue_scb_block, the raw_mbox busy
location is set before the memcpy.


> 
> Logically, it looks like the mbox_t should be split up into an mbox_out
> (which is what all the routines want to set values in) and an mbox_in
> which is where the status is returned.
> 
> James
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Mark Haverkamp <markh@osdl.org>