Ok - I'll look at this path further...

-- james

Ma, Steve wrote:
>
> With the latest patch, and I set
>
> job->reply->reply_payload_rcv_len = len;
>
> It crashed at the BUG_ON in fc_bsg_jobdone.
>
> -Steve
>
>  
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> *From:* James Smart [mailto:[email protected]]
> *Sent:* Monday, April 20, 2009 12:20 PM
> *To:* Ma, Steve
> *Cc:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* Re: [Open-FCoE] [RFC PATCH] [open-fcoe] Add FC pass-through 
> support
>
>  
>
>
>
> Ma, Steve wrote:
>
>>> +                     pp, len);
>>> + job->reply->reply_payload_rcv_len = job->reply_payload.payload_len;
>>>  
>>>       
>> Why is this not:   "job->reply->reply_payload_rcv_len = len;"  ?
>>     
>  
> I have found that in case the user-space code specified a bigger response 
> buffer size than len. i.e. when job->reply_payload.payload_len > len, it will 
> consider the reply data is not fulfilled, and it hangs. The way I do is to 
> allow receiving less data than expected.
>
> If this is true, it's a bug. Given the other statements in your reply, 
> you may need to test with the latest patch. See:
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=123808882309133&w=2 
> <http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=123808882309133&w=2>
> There was one patch on top of it 
> (http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=123980043221985&w=2 
> <http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=123980043221985&w=2>)
>
> -- james
>
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