Re: Slab corruption in 2.6.16-rc5-mm2

["Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>]

On 3/6/06, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> >
> > Hmm, is it just me or should that len= have read len=96 ???
> >
> > This is the change I made :
> >
> > --- linux-2.6.16-rc5-mm2/block/scsi_ioctl.c~    2006-03-06
> > 21:43:56.000000000 +0100
> > +++ linux-2.6.16-rc5-mm2/block/scsi_ioctl.c     2006-03-06
> > 21:43:56.000000000 +0100
> > @@ -568,7 +568,7 @@ int scsi_cmd_ioctl(struct file *file, st
> >                         hdr.dxferp = cgc.buffer;
> >                         hdr.sbp = cgc.sense;
> >                         if (hdr.sbp)
> > -                               hdr.mx_sb_len = sizeof(struct request_sense);
> > +                               hdr.mx_sb_len = SCSI_SENSE_BUFFERSIZE;
> >                         hdr.timeout = cgc.timeout;
> >                         hdr.cmdp = ((struct cdrom_generic_command __user*) arg)->cmd;
> >                         hdr.cmd_len = sizeof(cgc.cmd);
> >
> > did I mess up?
>
> That's not the one to change. It's the one in "sr_do_ioctl()", where it
> uses "sizeof(*sense)".
>

Ahh, so I did mess up - whoops - I just grep'ed for "sizeof(struct
request_sense)" :-(

I'll try it again (with the correct change) in a moment, after I've
tested Jens's "does no slab poison/debug make it go Oops" question...

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