Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 12:14:29 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Torben Mathiasen wrote:
>
> Yes it works, its not all that different from my patch ;).
Yeah.
The thing I actually cared most about was the comment, which makes the
patch palatable to me.
Linus, why did you apply his patch to _only_ reverse the if condition?
What you applied will crash Sparc again, whereas mine does not crash
the original Sparc case _and_ it fixes Torben's bug too.
Now, if that function is called for a TPNT for which no host adapters
were probed (happens if you compile a driver into the kernel which you
do not have in your machine) it will NULL dereference.
And you _wont_ notice the NULL derefence on ix86 during bootup! Only
other platforms will hit the OOPS due to this error.
Please, the following corrects test10-pre3.
--- ../vanilla/linux/drivers/scsi/scsi.c Fri Oct 13 18:49:31 2000
+++ drivers/scsi/scsi.c Thu Oct 12 18:45:06 2000
@@ -1976,6 +1976,7 @@
struct Scsi_Host *sh1;
struct Scsi_Host *shpnt;
char name[10]; /* host_no>=10^9? I don't think so. */
+ int orig_present;
/*
* First verify that this host adapter is completely free with no pending
@@ -2109,6 +2110,7 @@
* that were detected */
pcount0 = next_scsi_host;
+ orig_present = tpnt->present;
for (shpnt = scsi_hostlist; shpnt; shpnt = sh1) {
sh1 = shpnt->next;
if (shpnt->hostt != tpnt)
@@ -2155,11 +2157,11 @@
(scsi_memory_upper_value - scsi_init_memory_start) / 1024);
#endif
- /*
- * Remove it from the linked list and /proc if all
- * hosts were successfully removed (ie preset == 0)
- */
- if (!tpnt->present) {
+ /* Remove it from the linked list and /proc, but only if
+ * any hosts were registered to begin with _and_ we were
+ * able to remove all of them above.
+ */
+ if (orig_present && !tpnt->present) {
Scsi_Host_Template **SHTp = &scsi_hosts;
Scsi_Host_Template *SHT;
-
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