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Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 06:58:34 -0500
From: Mark Hounschell <dmarkh@cfl.rr.com>
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To: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
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       Tony Battersby <tonyb@cybernetics.com>
Subject: Re: New 2.6.24.2 SG_IO SCSI problems
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Mike Christie wrote:
> Mark Hounschell wrote:
>> Mark Hounschell wrote:
>>> Mike Christie wrote:
>>>> Mike Christie wrote:
>>>>> Mark Hounschell wrote:
>>>>>> I seem to have run into some sort of regression in the SG_IO
>>>>>> interface of 2.6.24.2. I have an application that up until 2.6.24
>>>>>> worked fine. The 2.6.23.16 kernel works fine.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> During reads I get these kernel messages. Writes and other functions
>>>>>> _seem_ OK. Actually basic
>>>>>> reads  are working. Its with large BC reads using an io_vec list that
>>>>>> the problem shows up.
>>>>>>
>>>>> Are you doing SG_IO to the sg device (/dev/sg*) or to the block device
>>>>> (/dev/sdX)?
>>>> If you are doing SG_IO to the sg device, then I know of one regression
>>>> (well not regression exactly, but I fixed a bug but the patch got
>>>> partially overwritten by another patch and that caused a new bug). Both
>>>> bugs are fixed in 2.6.25-rc2. Could you try that out if you are doing
>>>> SG_IO to the sg device.
>>>>
>>> Yes, I'm using /dev/sg*. And yes again I'll checkout 2.6.25-rc2 ASIC.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Mark
>>> -
>>  
>> 2.6.25-rc2 does fix the problem I'm having. I don't suppose there is a
>> patch
>> lying around for 2.6.24.2??
>>
> 
> I attached a backport of the patch from Tony (added as cc) that is in
> 2.6.25-rc2. Could you try it out against 2.6.24.2 just to make sure it
> was this patch, then we can send it to stable.
> 

>Mark Hounschell wrote:
>
>Sorry it took so long. This does fix my problem. I hope it's not to
>late for 2.6.24.3
>

Backport
76d78300a6eb8b7f08e47703b7e68a659ffc2053
to 2.6.24

>From Tony Battersby:

When sending a SCSI command to a tape drive via the SCSI Generic (sg)
driver, if the command has a data transfer length more than
scatter_elem_sz (32 KB default) and not a multiple of 512, then I either
hit BUG_ON(!valid_dma_direction(direction)) in dma_unmap_sg() or else
the command never completes (depending on the LLDD).

When constructing scatterlists, the sg driver rounds up the scatterlist
element sizes to be a multiple of 512.  This can result in
sum(scatterlist lengths) > bufflen.  In this case, scsi_req_map_sg()
incorrectly sets bio->bi_size to sum(scatterlist lengths) rather than to
bufflen.  When the command completes, req_bio_endio() detects that
bio->bi_size != 0, and so it doesn't call bio_endio().  This causes the
command to be resubmitted, resulting in BUG_ON or the command never
completing.

This patch makes scsi_req_map_sg() set bio->bi_size to bufflen rather
than to sum(scatterlist lengths), which fixes the problem.

Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>

--- linux-2.6.24.2/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c	2008-02-10 23:51:11.000000000
-0600
+++ linux-2.6.24.2.work/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c	2008-02-22
16:20:09.000000000 -0600
@@ -298,7 +298,6 @@ static int scsi_req_map_sg(struct reques
 		page = sg_page(sg);
 		off = sg->offset;
 		len = sg->length;
- 		data_len += len;

 		while (len > 0 && data_len > 0) {
 			/*


Did this ever get sent to the stable team?

Regards
Mark
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