Re: [RFC][PATCHES] drivers/scsi/sg.c uaccess cleanups/fixes

From: Al Viro
Date: Tue Nov 05 2019 - 00:26:00 EST


On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 11:54:20PM -0500, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
>
> Hi Al!
>
> > I've got a series that presumably fixes and cleans the things up
> > in that area; it didn't get any serious testing (the kernel builds
> > and boots, smartctl works as well as it used to, but that's not
> > worth much - all it says is that SG_IO doesn't fail terribly;
> > I don't have any test setup for really working with /dev/sg*).
>
> I tested this last week without noticing any problems.
>
> What's your plan for this series? Want me to queue it up for 5.5?

I can put it into vfs.git into a never-rebased branch or you could put it
into scsi tree - up to you...