"read defect list" with 2.0.30-pre7 and patch Aug19

[Hubert Mantel]

Hi,

On Thu, 21 Aug 1997, Ulrich Windl wrote:

> Having enabled the statistics, I found out that I have statistics for
> non-existing SCSI IDs and LUNs -- maybe the read was there, but not the

[...]

> Still, as expected earlier, there seems to be a undetected buffer 
> overflow in the kernel that overwrites some SCSI data structures (at 
> least). The code of the fault looked OK, but the RAM accesses had 
> probably bad values.

If I remember correctly there has been a bug report about statistics can
result in a buffer overflow for multiple LUNs. I didn't check if the fix
for this has gone into pre-7 yet.

    Hubert mantel at suse.de