RE: [PATCH] megaraid: Use the proper type to hold the irq number.

From: Ju, Seokmann
Date: Mon Aug 07 2006 - 17:17:30 EST


Hi
> This patches fixes that problem and the driver now appears
> to work.
>
> The ioctl interface appears fundamentally broken as it exports
> the irq number to user space in an unsigned char.
Thank you for your findings.
As you mentioned above, driver needs more changes besides your patch.
I will submit a patch covers all required changes, soon.

Thank you again,

Seokmann

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-scsi-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:linux-scsi-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Eric
> W. Biederman
> Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 11:29 AM
> To: Andrew Morton
> Cc: Kolli, Neela; linux-scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Protasevich,
> Natalie; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [PATCH] megaraid: Use the proper type to hold the irq number.
>
>
> When testing on a Unisys machine it was discovered that
> the megaraid driver would not initialize as it was
> requesting irq 162 instead of irq 1442 it was assigned.
> The problem was the irq number had been truncated by being
> stored in an unsigned char.
>
> This patches fixes that problem and the driver now appears
> to work.
>
> The ioctl interface appears fundamentally broken as it exports
> the irq number to user space in an unsigned char.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/scsi/megaraid/mega_common.h | 2 +-
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/megaraid/mega_common.h
> b/drivers/scsi/megaraid/mega_common.h
> index 8cd0bd1..b50e27e 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/megaraid/mega_common.h
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/megaraid/mega_common.h
> @@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ typedef struct {
> uint8_t max_lun;
>
> uint32_t unique_id;
> - uint8_t irq;
> + int irq;
> uint8_t ito;
> caddr_t ibuf;
> dma_addr_t ibuf_dma_h;
> --
> 1.4.2.rc3.g7e18e
>
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