#define MAX_RESET_HA_RETRIES           2
 
+#define CMD_SP(Cmnd)                   ((Cmnd)->SCp.ptr)
+
 /*
  * SCSI Request Block structure         (srb)  that is placed
  * on cmd->SCp location of every I/O    [We have 22 bytes available]
 
        qla4xxx_build_scsi_iocbs(srb, cmd_entry, tot_dsds);
        wmb();
 
-       srb->cmd->host_scribble = (unsigned char *)srb;
+       srb->cmd->host_scribble = (unsigned char *)(unsigned long)index;
 
        /* update counters */
        srb->state = SRB_ACTIVE_STATE;
 
        srb->ddb = ddb_entry;
        srb->cmd = cmd;
        srb->flags = 0;
-       cmd->SCp.ptr = (void *)srb;
+       CMD_SP(cmd) = (void *)srb;
        cmd->scsi_done = done;
 
        return srb;
                scsi_dma_unmap(cmd);
                srb->flags &= ~SRB_DMA_VALID;
        }
-       cmd->SCp.ptr = NULL;
+       CMD_SP(cmd) = NULL;
 }
 
 void qla4xxx_srb_compl(struct scsi_qla_host *ha, struct srb *srb)
                }
        }
        spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ha->hardware_lock, flags);
-
 }
 
 /**
 struct srb * qla4xxx_del_from_active_array(struct scsi_qla_host *ha, uint32_t index)
 {
        struct srb *srb = NULL;
-       struct scsi_cmnd *cmd;
+       struct scsi_cmnd *cmd = NULL;
 
-       if (!(cmd = scsi_host_find_tag(ha->host, index)))
+       cmd = scsi_host_find_tag(ha->host, index);
+       if (!cmd)
                return srb;
 
-       if (!(srb = (struct srb *)cmd->host_scribble))
+       srb = (struct srb *)CMD_SP(cmd);
+       if (!srb)
                return srb;
 
        /* update counters */
                ha->req_q_count += srb->iocb_cnt;
                ha->iocb_cnt -= srb->iocb_cnt;
                if (srb->cmd)
-                       srb->cmd->host_scribble = NULL;
+                       srb->cmd->host_scribble =
+                               (unsigned char *)(unsigned long) MAX_SRBS;
        }
        return srb;
 }
 
        do {
                /* Checking to see if its returned to OS */
-               rp = (struct srb *) cmd->SCp.ptr;
+               rp = (struct srb *) CMD_SP(cmd);
                if (rp == NULL) {
                        done++;
                        break;