Re: OOPS in idescsi_end_request

From: Brian King (brking@charter.net)
Date: Fri Jan 24 2003 - 08:39:48 EST


James Stevenson wrote:
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>>Would you agree to test the patch (possibly next week).
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> yeah sure.
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I would be happy to test it as well.

-Brian

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>>cheers
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>>-andrey
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>>>>If you can reliably reproduce the problem you could give it a try.
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>>>>Anybody sees yet another race condition here? :))
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>>>>-andrey
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>>>>>While burning a CD tonight I ended up taking an oops on my system. I
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>>>>>the lkcd patch applied to my 2.4.19 kernel, so I was able to look at
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>>>>> oops after my system rebooted. After digging into it a little and
>>>>>looking at the ide-scsi code I think I found the problem but am not
>>>>>sure. How can idescsi_reset simply return SCSI_RESET_SUCCESS to the
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> scsi
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>>>>>mid layer? I think what is happening is that a command times out,
>>>>>idescsi_abort is called, which returns SCSI_ABORT_SNOOZE. Later on
>>>>>idescsi_reset gets called, which returns SCSI_RESET_SUCCESS. At this
>>>>>point the scsi mid-layer owns the scsi_cmnd and returns the failure
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>>>>>up the chain. Later on, the command gets run through
>>>>>idescsi_end_request, which then tries to access the scsi_cmnd
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>>>>>which is it no longer owns.
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>>>>>Any help is appreciated. I have a complete lkcd dump of the failure if
>>>>>anyone would like more information...
>>>>>
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