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Re: [PATCH] Revert "scsi: mpt3sas: Fix secure erase premature termination"

From James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] Revert "scsi: mpt3sas: Fix secure erase premature termination"
Date 2017-01-16 17:20 +0100
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On Mon, 2017-01-16 at 07:27 -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 10:02:51PM +0000, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> > I disagree. Even if my patch would be reverted that still wouldn't 
> > fix the severe race condition that was introduced in the mpt3sas 
> > driver by the patch that triggers the lockup during boot. As I 
> > explained two weeks ago (see also 
> > https://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg2411413.htm
> > l), commit 18f6084a989b ("scsi: mpt3sas: Fix secure erase premature
> > termination") is the one that should be reverted instead of my 
> > patch. I agree with Linus that the offending mpt3sas patch already 
> > should have been reverted.
> 
> In addition to that ATA passthrough through scsi CDBs is a fringe
> feature compared to normal operation of the HBA.

So how about, instead of arguing about reversion, one or other of you
reviews the proposed fix of the fix which would avoid having to revert
anything?

James

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[GIT PULL] SCSI fixes for 4.10-rc3 James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> - 2017-01-13 16:10 +0100
  [PATCH] Revert "scsi: mpt3sas: Fix secure erase premature  termination" Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2017-01-15 10:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] Revert "scsi: mpt3sas: Fix secure erase premature  termination" James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> - 2017-01-15 17:20 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] Revert "scsi: mpt3sas: Fix secure erase premature termination" Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2017-01-15 20:00 +0100
        Re: [PATCH] Revert "scsi: mpt3sas: Fix secure erase premature  termination" James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> - 2017-01-15 20:20 +0100
          Re: [PATCH] Revert "scsi: mpt3sas: Fix secure erase premature  termination" James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> - 2017-01-15 20:50 +0100
            Re: [PATCH] Revert "scsi: mpt3sas: Fix secure erase premature  termination" Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2017-01-16 16:30 +0100
              Re: [PATCH] Revert "scsi: mpt3sas: Fix secure erase premature  termination" James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> - 2017-01-16 17:20 +0100
                Re: [PATCH] Revert "scsi: mpt3sas: Fix secure erase premature  termination" Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2017-01-16 19:40 +0100
          Re: [PATCH] Revert "scsi: mpt3sas: Fix secure erase premature termination" Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2017-01-15 20:50 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] Revert "scsi: mpt3sas: Fix secure erase premature  termination" Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2017-01-16 10:30 +0100
        Re: [PATCH] Revert "scsi: mpt3sas: Fix secure erase premature  termination" James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> - 2017-01-16 15:30 +0100
          Re: [PATCH] Revert "scsi: mpt3sas: Fix secure erase premature  termination" Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2017-01-16 17:40 +0100

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