On 15-02-11 11:32 AM, Tony Battersby wrote:
Fix SCSI generic read() incorrectly returning success after detecting an
error.

Cc: <sta...@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Battersby <to...@cybernetics.com>
---

For inclusion in kernel 3.20.

--- linux-3.19.0/drivers/scsi/sg.c.orig 2015-02-08 21:54:22.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-3.19.0/drivers/scsi/sg.c      2015-02-10 09:26:09.000000000 -0500
@@ -546,7 +546,7 @@ static ssize_t
  sg_new_read(Sg_fd * sfp, char __user *buf, size_t count, Sg_request * srp)
  {
        sg_io_hdr_t *hp = &srp->header;
-       int err = 0;
+       int err = 0, err2;
        int len;

        if (count < SZ_SG_IO_HDR) {
@@ -575,8 +575,8 @@ sg_new_read(Sg_fd * sfp, char __user *bu
                goto err_out;
        }
  err_out:
-       err = sg_finish_rem_req(srp);
-       return (0 == err) ? count : err;
+       err2 = sg_finish_rem_req(srp);
+       return err ? : err2 ? : count;

Tony,
Your point is well made.

I just don't like that last line, using a gcc extension that
hasn't even made it into C11 (or C++11). Wouldn't:
    return err ? err : (err2 ? err2 : count);

be a bit better? I think the following snippet makes the intent
clear but would it generate any more code:
    if (err || err2)
        return err ? err : err2;
    else
        return count;

Doug Gilbert


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