From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759418AbcHEBg7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Aug 2016 21:36:59 -0400 Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:26894 "EHLO userp1040.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759329AbcHEBgz (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Aug 2016 21:36:55 -0400 To: Calvin Owens Cc: Sathya Prakash , Chaitra P B , Suganath Prabu Subramani , "James E.J. Bottomley" , "Martin K. Petersen" , , , , Subject: Re: [PATCH] mpt3sas: Ensure the connector_name string is NUL-terminated From: "Martin K. Petersen" Organization: Oracle Corporation References: <8b53a29b3ec90c9a7030e8fa3e1555ad5802dce9.1469680625.git.calvinowens@fb.com> Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2016 21:35:21 -0400 In-Reply-To: <8b53a29b3ec90c9a7030e8fa3e1555ad5802dce9.1469680625.git.calvinowens@fb.com> (Calvin Owens's message of "Wed, 27 Jul 2016 21:45:51 -0700") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Source-IP: aserv0022.oracle.com [141.146.126.234] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>>>> "Calvin" == Calvin Owens writes: Calvin> We blindly trust the hardware to give us NUL-terminated strings, Calvin> which is a bad idea because it doesn't always do that. For Calvin> example: Broadcom folks, please respond to this and other mpt3sas patches in the queue: https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-scsi/list/?q=mpt3sas -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering