Re: [PATCH 2/4]Diskdump Update

[Takao Indoh <indou.takao@soft.fujitsu.com>]

On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 14:39:06 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

>> >please make it not a module of it's own but part of the
>> >scsi code, 
>> 
>> Do you mean scsi_dump module should be merged with sd_mod.o or scsi_mod.o?
>
>scsi_mod.o.

It is difficult because disk_dump and scsi_dump try to check checksum of
itself using check_crc_module so as to confirm whether module is
compromised or not.

drivers/scsi/scsi_dump.c:
static int
scsi_dump_sanity_check(struct disk_dump_device *dump_device)
{
        struct scsi_device *sdev = dump_device->device;
        struct Scsi_Host *host = sdev->host;
        int adapter_sanity = 0;
        int sanity = 0;

        if (!check_crc_module()) {
                Err("checksum error. scsi dump module may be compromised.
");
                return -EINVAL;
        }

Therefore, scsi_dump need to be always compiled as independent module.
If scsi_dump is merged with scsi_mod, scsi_mod is not able to be
compiled statically.

Best Regards,
Takao Indoh