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The driver associates two different structs with numeric handles and passes the handles to the hardware. When the hardware passes the handle back to the driver, the driver consults a table of void * to convert the handle back to the struct without checking the type of struct. This can lead to type confusion if the HBA firmware misbehaves (and some firmware versions do). So verify the type of struct is what is expected before using it. But we can also do better than that. Also verify that the exchange address of the message sent from the hardware matches the exchange address of the command being returned. This adds an extra guard against buggy HBA firmware that returns duplicate messages multiple times (which has also been seen) in case the driver has reused the handle for a different command of the same type. These problems were seen on a QLE2694L with firmware 9.08.02 when testing SLER / SRR support. The SRR caused the HBA to flood the response queue with hundreds of bogus entries. Signed-off-by: Tony Battersby <tonyb@cybernetics.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/7c7cb574-fe62-42ae-b800-d136d8dd89ca@cybernetics.com Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.