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To: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: sg: only check for dxfer_len greater than 256M
From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Organization: Oracle Corporation
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Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2017 08:51:56 -0400
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Johannes,

> Don't make any assumptions on the sg_io_hdr_t::dxfer_direction or the
> sg_io_hdr_t::dxferp in order to determine if it is a valid
> request. The only way we can check for bad requests is by checking if
> the length exceeds 256M.

Applied to 4.13/scsi-fixes. Thanks!

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering