This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

scsi: sg: fix SG_DXFER_FROM_DEV transfers

to the 3.18-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: scsi-sg-fix-sg_dxfer_from_dev-transfers.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From 68c59fcea1f2c6a54c62aa896cc623c1b5bc9b47 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Johannes Thumshirn jthumshirn@suse.de Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2017 10:56:38 +0200 Subject: scsi: sg: fix SG_DXFER_FROM_DEV transfers

From: Johannes Thumshirn jthumshirn@suse.de

commit 68c59fcea1f2c6a54c62aa896cc623c1b5bc9b47 upstream.

SG_DXFER_FROM_DEV transfers do not necessarily have a dxferp as we set it to NULL for the old sg_io read/write interface, but must have a length bigger than 0. This fixes a regression introduced by commit 28676d869bbb ("scsi: sg: check for valid direction before starting the request")

Signed-off-by: Johannes Thumshirn jthumshirn@suse.de Fixes: 28676d869bbb ("scsi: sg: check for valid direction before starting the request") Reported-by: Chris Clayton chris2553@googlemail.com Tested-by: Chris Clayton chris2553@googlemail.com Cc: Douglas Gilbert dgilbert@interlog.com Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke hare@suse.com Tested-by: Chris Clayton chris2553@googlemail.com Acked-by: Douglas Gilbert dgilbert@interlog.com Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen martin.petersen@oracle.com Cc: Cristian Crinteanu crinteanu.cristian@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org

--- drivers/scsi/sg.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/scsi/sg.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/sg.c @@ -769,8 +769,11 @@ static bool sg_is_valid_dxfer(sg_io_hdr_ if (hp->dxferp || hp->dxfer_len > 0) return false; return true; - case SG_DXFER_TO_DEV: case SG_DXFER_FROM_DEV: + if (hp->dxfer_len < 0) + return false; + return true; + case SG_DXFER_TO_DEV: case SG_DXFER_TO_FROM_DEV: if (!hp->dxferp || hp->dxfer_len == 0) return false;

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jthumshirn@suse.de are

queue-3.18/scsi-sg-fix-static-checker-warning-in-sg_is_valid_dxfer.patch queue-3.18/scsi-sg-only-check-for-dxfer_len-greater-than-256m.patch queue-3.18/scsi-sg-check-for-valid-direction-before-starting-the-request.patch queue-3.18/scsi-sg-close-race-condition-in-sg_remove_sfp_usercontext.patch queue-3.18/scsi-sg-fix-sg_dxfer_from_dev-transfers.patch