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Date:      Mon, 24 May 1999 09:41:25 -0600 (MDT)
From:      "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com>
To:        amobbs@allstor-sw.co.uk
Cc:        freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Bug in cam_periph.c
Message-ID:  <199905241541.JAA24675@panzer.plutotech.com>
In-Reply-To: <8025677B.00309A45.00@mail.plasmon.co.uk> from "amobbs@allstor-sw.co.uk" at "May 24, 1999 09:50:51 am"

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amobbs@allstor-sw.co.uk wrote...
> 
> It looks to me that the tests for useracc read/write permission in
> cam_periph_mapmem are the wrong way around. Surely if the data direction is OUT,
> you want to be able to read the memory, and if it's IN you need to be able to
> write to the buffer. (He said, having tried to put a R/O mmap'd buffer through a
> passthrough driver write with little success.)
> 
> (patch against -stable).
> 
> --- cam_periph.c.orig    Sun May 23 11:58:17 1999
> +++ cam_periph.c    Sun May 23 12:00:31 1999
> @@ -558,7 +558,7 @@
>                return(E2BIG);
>           }
> 
> -         if (dirs[i] & CAM_DIR_IN) {
> +         if (dirs[i] & CAM_DIR_OUT) {
>                flags[i] = B_READ;
>                if (useracc(*data_ptrs[i], lengths[i], B_READ) == 0){
>                     printf("cam_periph_mapmem: error, "

[ ... ]

Oops, looks like a bug all right.  Thanks for finding it.

Ken
-- 
Kenneth Merry
ken@plutotech.com


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