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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/scsi')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/scsi/osd/osd_initiator.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/osd/osd_initiator.c b/drivers/scsi/osd/osd_initiator.c index f61ab84ad20..1ce6b24abab 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/osd/osd_initiator.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/osd/osd_initiator.c @@ -263,7 +263,12 @@ static int _osd_req_alist_elem_decode(struct osd_request *or, oa->attr_page = be32_to_cpu(attr->attr_page); oa->attr_id = be32_to_cpu(attr->attr_id); - oa->val_ptr = attr->attr_val; + /* OSD2: For convenience, on empty attributes, we return 8 bytes + * of zeros here. This keeps the same behaviour with OSD2r04, + * and is nice with null terminating ASCII fields. + * oa->val_ptr == NULL marks the end-of-list, or error. + */ + oa->val_ptr = likely(oa->len) ? attr->attr_val : attr->reserved; } return inc; } |