Re: [scsi-qedf] question about parameter ordering

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Wed May 03 2017 - 14:36:46 EST


On 05/03/17 11:29, Chad Dupuis wrote:
>
> On Wed, 3 May 2017, 1:58pm, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
>
>>
>> Hello everybody,
>>
>> While looking into Coverity ID 1402011 I ran into the following piece of code
>> at drivers/scsi/qedf/qedf_io.c:2057:
>>
>> /* Fill FC header */
>> fc_hdr = &(tm_req->req_fc_hdr);
>> sid = fcport->sid;
>> did = fcport->rdata->ids.port_id;
>> __fc_fill_fc_hdr(fc_hdr, FC_RCTL_DD_UNSOL_CMD, sid, did,
>> FC_TYPE_FCP, FC_FC_FIRST_SEQ | FC_FC_END_SEQ |
>> FC_FC_SEQ_INIT, 0);
>>
>> The issue here is that the position of arguments in the call to
>> __fc_fill_fc_hdr() function do not match the ordering of the parameters:
>>
>> _sid_ is passed to _did_
>> _did_ is passed to _sid_
>>
>> this is the function prototype:
>>
>> static inline void __fc_fill_fc_hdr(struct fc_frame_header *fh,
>> enum fc_rctl r_ctl,
>> u32 did, u32 sid, enum fc_fh_type type,
>> u32 f_ctl, u32 parm_offset)
>>
>> My question here is if this is intentionala?
>
> This may have been but this code has been superseded by commit
> be086e7c53f1fac51eed14523b28f2214b548dd2.B

what git tree is that in?

Thanks.

>> In case it is not, I will send a patch to fix it. But first it would be great
>> to hear any comment about it.
>>
>> By the way... the same is happening at drivers/scsi/qedf/qedf_els.c:109
>
> May be a bug here so you could send a patch.


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~Randy