[PATCH] scsi/ibmvscsi: /sys/class/scsi_host/hostX/config doesn't show any information

[Robert Jennings]

On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 8:33 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
<benh at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> scsi/ibmvscsi: Fix host config length field overflow
>
> The length field in the host config packet is only 16-bit long, so
> passing it 0x10000 (64K which is our standard PAGE_SIZE) doesn't
> work and result in an empty config from the server.
>
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
> CC: <stable at vger.kernel.org>

James, can this be added to your for-next branch so that we can
also get this to the stable trees?  Thanks.

Acked-by: Robert Jennings <rcj at linux.vnet.ibm.com>

> ---
>
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi/ibmvscsi.c b/drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi/ibmvscsi.c
> index 3a6c474..337e8b3 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi/ibmvscsi.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi/ibmvscsi.c
> @@ -1541,6 +1541,9 @@ static int ibmvscsi_do_host_config(struct ibmvscsi_host_data *hostdata,
>
>         host_config = &evt_struct->iu.mad.host_config;
>
> +       /* The transport length field is only 16-bit */
> +       length = min(0xffff, length);
> +
>         /* Set up a lun reset SRP command */
>         memset(host_config, 0x00, sizeof(*host_config));
>         host_config->common.type = VIOSRP_HOST_CONFIG_TYPE;
>
>